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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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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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 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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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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