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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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’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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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 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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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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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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