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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 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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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