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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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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 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 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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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