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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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