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" I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head. "

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" 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. "

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

" I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, 'I love this place.' "

" I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that's important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about. "

" I'd always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there's a sense that you're never young enough, or your career is going to end soon. "

" I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to. "

" 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. "

" It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over. "

" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

" I'm punk, but I love gold. "

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

" What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology. "

" I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we're able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn's case, we as artists somehow made it 'cool' enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over. "

" I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment. "

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

" With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There's nothing that's set. "

" 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. "

" I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically. "

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

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

" I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art. "

" Being an outsider makes you a really good writer. "

" 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. "

" I couldn't wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don't really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that's what I wanted to do. "

" When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try. "

" It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely. "