On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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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 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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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