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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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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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Anyone Ask Assume Been Hobby Offend Strangely Time Whether
Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Always Chaostic Dirty Everything Felt Messy So World
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Cross Finger Hope Musician Whole Writer
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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 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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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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