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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.

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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Like Music Say Someone Something
I don’t want to be elitist.
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Be Elitist Want To
I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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Any Fact Guidance Kind Know Look Problematic
If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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Bring High Low Notes Really Some Somewhere Song Try Want
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Decision Important Into Make Most Much Often One Put Times
I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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Audience Get People Play Pressure Show Think
Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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Already Balme Bend Around Exist Hard Lot Realise Start
When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Believe Like Lot Make Media Music Social Something Start
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.

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