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" I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art. "

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" My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences. "

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" Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art. "

" There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive. "

" I'm not an innovator. "

" I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities. "

" When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness. "

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" I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music. "

" A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that for me. I didn't think of it as a job or a career - it was just something that was constant. "

" When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself. "

" I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house. "

" Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration. "

" I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country. "

" I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing. "

" On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky. "

" I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have. "

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" I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion. "

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" I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious. "

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" I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot. "

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