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" I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most. "

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" I hear people telling me a lot that the production of that particular record - 'One Part Lullaby' - really influenced them. I'm like, 'What? We were dropped from the label after that!' "

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