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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.

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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 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 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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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 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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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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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.

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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.

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