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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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Being Country Crisis First Few Identity Long Major never One Place Stay Year
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 don’t want to be elitist.
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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