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" Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me. "

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" There's backlash about everything I do. "

" I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world. "

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" I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all. "

" I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity. "

" A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York. "

" If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist. "

" I'm a writer first and a singer second. "

" People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day. "

" When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it. "

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" I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves. "

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" My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs. "

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" A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it's really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform - or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something. "

" I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear. "

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" When I walk outside, people have something to say about it. "

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" I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things. "

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