I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
MITSKIMiyazaki 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 the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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 started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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