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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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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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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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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