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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 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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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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