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

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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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 care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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