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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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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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 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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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’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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