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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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 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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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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 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 don’t want to be elitist.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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