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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Gold Punk Love
I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

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