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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.

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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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 think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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 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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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