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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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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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