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" I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time. "

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

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

" 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 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 you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. Then you start to realise, 'Oh, I'm bending a lot,' and they're just standing there existing, and I'm bending around them. But you can't blame them: they don't realise it; that's just how they already existed. It's hard. "

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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