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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.

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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.

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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.

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