People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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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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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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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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 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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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