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" I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs. "

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" Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then. "

" I meet a lot of people after shows, and I have to say it's pretty intense. "

" What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.' "

" I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it. "

" Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. "

" When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do. "

" I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried. "

" I try to not assume things are sexism. I'm trying to be good natured about why things are happening. "

" If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education. "

" Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else. "

" My parents listened to a lot of James Taylor and Hall and Oates. My mom and I used to listen to Liz Phair and Indigo Girls a lot in the car, too. "

" Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument. "

" It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise. "

" Sometimes I'm really mean to someone who just hugged me. I never thought that I would be like that. "

" Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can. "

" I don't actually have problems dealing with corporate situations. There are times I've railed against it, but there are other times when I'm like, 'I'll take your money, no problem.' "

" I've played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I'm the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, 'So, do we pay you?' And he's like, 'No, you pay her; she's the boss.' Those are moments where I'm just like, 'I'm clearly in charge.' "

" I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing. "

" I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things. "

" I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?' "

" I'm always the one sitting at the merch table and talking to everyone at the show - and I think it's because I have this deep fear that if I'm not approachable or I'm not there, people are going to think I'm a brat. "

" I think I'd like my hair to be perfect. "

" I can be very social, but often, it weighs down on me later that the social thing was a put-on. I feel like my way of dealing with not wanting to go out is, I just don't. I can't bring myself to. "

" There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not. "

" I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that. "

" It was a really long process, dropping out of college. I was there for a semester, then I would take a semester off and go on tour, then I would go back for a semester. "

" The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the performance, but they're probably also going to be writing about what I was wearing or my hair, which just doesn't happen to men. "

" My Bandcamp had a lot of bad and good music, but I relied on that to sort my feelings. My sadness will always be there, even in the happiness. "

" Performing is something that has really grown on me and become an important part of my life, which I didn't used to feel. I didn't used to want to really perform live a lot. It's been an interesting adjustment. "

" I never was interested in acting, and I never became good at it. "