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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 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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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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