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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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 don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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 not an innovator.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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