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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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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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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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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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