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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.

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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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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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