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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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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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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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