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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 started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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’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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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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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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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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