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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 took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I’m not an innovator.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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