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" My parents listened to a lot of James Taylor and Hall and Oates. My mom and I used to listen to Liz Phair and Indigo Girls a lot in the car, too. "

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" The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates. "

" I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried. "

" It was a really long process, dropping out of college. I was there for a semester, then I would take a semester off and go on tour, then I would go back for a semester. "

" There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not. "

" I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things. "

" It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time. "

" I knew that 'Next Thing' was an angry album while I was making it. But I thought that it was angry the way that you get in a fight, not angry as a huge life change. "

" Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can. "

" Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. "

" My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?' "

" I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own. "

" It's even easier to write about the past now that I'm happy and have better stuff to write about. That's why someone like Bob Dylan can make so many records over so long a time; it's not like he's been sad all this time. He's really successful! "

" I've played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I'm the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, 'So, do we pay you?' And he's like, 'No, you pay her; she's the boss.' Those are moments where I'm just like, 'I'm clearly in charge.' "

" I realized I was trained my whole life to be an accommodating person, to make sure that everybody is comfortable before I'm comfortable. After giving so much of myself to strangers, I learned to care for myself a little more, especially on tour. "

" I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships. "

" Performing is something that has really grown on me and become an important part of my life, which I didn't used to feel. I didn't used to want to really perform live a lot. It's been an interesting adjustment. "

" I'm always the one sitting at the merch table and talking to everyone at the show - and I think it's because I have this deep fear that if I'm not approachable or I'm not there, people are going to think I'm a brat. "

" I'm not just going to hug every person that asks to hug me. "

" I can be very social, but often, it weighs down on me later that the social thing was a put-on. I feel like my way of dealing with not wanting to go out is, I just don't. I can't bring myself to. "

" Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else. "

" I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs. "

" I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it. "

" When I was 18, I borrowed my parents' car, and they are super supportive. They might give us snacks for the road, but it's not like they are paying clubs to book us. "

" I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion. "

" When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do. "

" The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever. "

" I never was interested in acting, and I never became good at it. "

" I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that. "

" I think I'd like my hair to be perfect. "

" If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing. "