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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.

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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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’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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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