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" I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks. "

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" If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there. "

" It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way. "

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" 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. "

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" I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed. "

" Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty. "

" 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. "

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" Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!' "

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

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