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" It's kind of crazy how music helped me overcome the anxieties that I have. "

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" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

" For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear. "

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" I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most. "

" I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized. "

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" I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with. "

" I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak. "

" When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like, three or four strumming patterns that seemed kind of unique to me. "

" I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me. "

" Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable. "

" To bicker over what could have been is silly. "

" I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that. "

" J. makes me laugh. He's incredibly dry and has a pretty harsh sense of humor that I enjoy. "

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" At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music. "

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