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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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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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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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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