I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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