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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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’m not an innovator.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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