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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.

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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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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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 it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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