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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’

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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’

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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’

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