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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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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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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

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