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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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 think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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