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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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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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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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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