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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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 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 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 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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

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