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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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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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 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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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 think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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 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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