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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.

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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.

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