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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

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You can never learn enough about music.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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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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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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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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