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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Insular Precious Record Thing Very When
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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Anything Exist Ideology Important Material Me Reflective Song
The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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
On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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
When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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Feel Finally Like Myself Onstage Perform Want Way
I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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Always Choose Feel Like Make One Place Stay Thing Travel Want
I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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 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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Always Haven Myself String Urge
I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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Came Care How Just Make Music Next Really
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate 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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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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