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" I was one of those girls people called 'intense.' "

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" I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it. "

" I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art. "

" I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician. "

" The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed. "

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

" When I record, it's this very precious and insular thing. "

" I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.' "

" I can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant. "

" Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something. "

" When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn't have a personal life. "

" 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. "

" I really like The Cars. They're just so over the top and super pop, but I don't feel guilty. I'm proud of all the music I listen to. "

" When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.' "

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

" If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me. "

" As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent. "

" Honestly, in the music business, it's all about being cool or being the newest thing or being the 'It' person, and I've tried really hard to be what is expected of me or what would be advantageous to my career, and I just reached the point where I said, 'No, I'm an emotional loser. I can't pretend to not care.' "

" 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. "

" Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere. "

" I'm not an innovator. "

" I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time. "

" I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me. "

" When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up. "

" 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. "

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" You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained. "