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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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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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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 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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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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