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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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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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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 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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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