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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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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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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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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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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 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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