I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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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