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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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 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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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 took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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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 it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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