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

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" 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. "

" I love going to weddings. I love movie scenes of weddings. Even, like, TV-show weddings - I cry at every wedding. "

" I'm not just going to hug every person that asks to hug me. "

" If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing. "

" My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?' "

" 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. "

" It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I could have a record that represents every stage of my life, I'd be putting out one a month. Everything is always changing, and so is the way that I feel about stuff. "

" I knew that 'Next Thing' was an angry album while I was making it. But I thought that it was angry the way that you get in a fight, not angry as a huge life change. "

" I've definitely gotten to the point where we get to the venue, and people know that I'm in charge of the band. "

" It's even easier to write about the past now that I'm happy and have better stuff to write about. That's why someone like Bob Dylan can make so many records over so long a time; it's not like he's been sad all this time. He's really successful! "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging. "

" One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers. "

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

" You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

" The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates. "