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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Basically Been Home Life Stop Think Tour Want
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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Drink Jib Other Suppose Think Tour Whisky Work
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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Bend Job Love Make Minority Really Someone Want Work
Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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Could Just Me Mine Music One Put Thing
I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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Belong Came Country Create Either Idea Realise
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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Audience Between Existence Feel Just Obvious Party Perform Sometimes
Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Good Inspiration Tour Writing
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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Always Better Color Competent Consider Everybody Fifty Hundred Percent Room Woman
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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All Always Born Country Day From Have Thing Want What
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Every Feel Privilege Resistance Such Turn
Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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Comunity Exist Ingratiate Myself Whenever Tried
I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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Any Fact Guidance Kind Know Look Problematic
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 set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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Discover More Out Set Something Write

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