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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

Mitski

I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
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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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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Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Like Music Say Someone Something
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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