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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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