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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.

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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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’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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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 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’m punk, but I love gold.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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