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" All the records I keep are like friends I visit. "
Like
Keep
Visit
" As a kid, you put musicians on a pedestal - well, I did. The more you meet bands, and the more you hang around them, you can have normal conversations. "
Musicians
You
More
" Both my brothers are drummers. "
Drummers
Brothers
Both
" Brit Marling is very positive, very professional, very encouraging. "
Positive
Professional
Encouraging
" Everyone has their down days. Unfortunately, that's when I am the most prolific. "
Everyone
I Am
Most
" Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that. "
Okay
Will
Laptop
" Every time I re-perform a song, I gain some perspective. "
Song
Perspective
Gain
" Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me. "
Going
People
Me
" Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy. "
Different
Energy
Live
" Hopefully, the stuff that is way too personal that I record and keep - people won't hear it because it's way too personal. "
Because
Way
Personal
" I always had a hard time communicating my emotions. I'd retreat into my bedroom and listen to music. And when you're a teenager, you're dealing with all these hormones. It's like, 'What are these?' "
Hard
Emotions
You
" I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard. "
Story
Always
Friends
" I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won't alienate the listener. "
Result
Process
I Am
" I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly and minimally. "
Strong
Enough
Believe
" I can't read notes well, but I can hear something and sing a harmony to it automatically. "
Hear
Sing
Notes
" I definitely wouldn't consider myself a professional, but I like to dress up like one. "
Like
Dress
Up
" I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30. "
Band
First
Like
" I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.' "
Working
Until
Band
" I didn't think I was helping other people. But I think that comes hand in hand with trying to be able to connect with people, and if you make things too personal, then it's harder for people to relate to you. Otherwise, it's just them listening to you read your diary. "
You
Think
People
" I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does. "
Music
Singing
Crowd
" I don't like to hold back. Especially with who I am and what I do, it's all me. Everything's my name; it's what I do. It's how I feel. It's what I think. "
Me
Back
I Am
" I don't think I'll ever feel perfectly balanced, but I feel like I'm figuring it out, and I'm surrounded by really wonderful people that want to see me succeed and be happy. Life is wild. "
Be Happy
Think
People
" I don't want to bury anything in poetry. "
Want
Anything
Bury
" I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way. "
Way
Feel
Feeling
" I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer. "
Getting Better
Better
Like
" If I make assumptions about the audience and start overthinking things, I can drive myself crazy about how the audience perceives me. I try not to do that anymore. "
I Can
Crazy
Start
" If I start panicking a little bit, I just talk through it with somebody. "
Little
Bit
Through
" I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally. "
System
Different
Me
" I go back to things all the time. It's really nice, too, like when I'm going through some kind of a writer's block, and I'm feeling uninspired, I go to some of my oldest songs from over the years and sift through them, and one thing that's very nice is to see how I've grown up a little bit. A little bit. "
See
Time
Back
" I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy. "
Really
Write
Because
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