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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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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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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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 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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