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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.

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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 want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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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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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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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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