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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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 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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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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