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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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