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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 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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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 don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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 my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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