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" I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that. "

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" I'm not a very open person. "

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" It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy. "

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" I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please. "

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