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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.

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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.

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