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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 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 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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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’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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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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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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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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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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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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 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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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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