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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.

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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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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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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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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.

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