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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 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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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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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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