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" I realized I was trained my whole life to be an accommodating person, to make sure that everybody is comfortable before I'm comfortable. After giving so much of myself to strangers, I learned to care for myself a little more, especially on tour. "

Frankie Cosmos

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Giving

Life

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" 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. "

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Simple

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Genius

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" 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. "

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

Frankie Cosmos

Thought

Sometimes

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

" I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own. "

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Long

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

" I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion. "

" 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. "

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