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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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Always Better Color Competent Consider Everybody Fifty Hundred Percent Room Woman
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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very
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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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