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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 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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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 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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and 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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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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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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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