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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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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 your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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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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