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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.

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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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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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 your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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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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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 care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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