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 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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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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 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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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