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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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