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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Almost Can Car Get Infant Read Sick
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Always Haven Myself String Urge
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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Any Fact Guidance Kind Know Look Problematic
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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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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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Always Anywhere Country Fit Grew Survive Up
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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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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