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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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 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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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