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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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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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 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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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 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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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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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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