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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

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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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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I’m not an innovator.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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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 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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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 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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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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