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" People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms. "

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" I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional. "

" Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me. "

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" When I can write a song in a way where I feel like other people can relate to it, and I can take it past being cathartic just for me, that's when I know I can share it. Otherwise, I'd just feel like it's selfish. "

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" Sadness isn't an emotion that most cool bands want to talk about. "

" I only work with people that are mysteries. "

" I'm trying to learn how to cook. "

" I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30. "

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" I go back to things all the time. It's really nice, too, like when I'm going through some kind of a writer's block, and I'm feeling uninspired, I go to some of my oldest songs from over the years and sift through them, and one thing that's very nice is to see how I've grown up a little bit. A little bit. "

" I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.' "

" Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways. "

" I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight. "

" I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great. "

" I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation. "

" 'The Boatman's Call' is amazing; it's an album of love songs, really beautiful. "

" I love traveling. I love meeting people. I love performing, but it's hard to be gone and to not have a real life and to just get the emotional love that you need from the people you're traveling with. "

" My career is based off of me talking about my emotions. "

" All the records I keep are like friends I visit. "

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Keep

Visit

" In some ways, being on the road is like summer camp. There's a camaraderie, but I'm also learning how to be more of a leader. "

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Summer

" I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy. "

" Brit Marling is very positive, very professional, very encouraging. "

" You'd better have something good to say if you've got a roomful of people who've paid to see you. "

" I have a lot of alter-egos: I would love to be a back-up singer for someone someday. I have an electronic side-project. I have a '90s grunge side project; I have a piano project... I have this industrial, goth-electronic song, super creepy sounding, just really dark and dreary. "

" I was without my own place for nearly two years. It's such a cliche to be a homeless musician in New York, but luckily, I had amazing friends who let me stay with them. I visited my parents a lot. It's not like I was sleeping in my car, though I might have done that once... But it was by choice! "

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" I started playing, and people responded to it and connected with it and now, I don't even know what I'm really connecting with anymore or if I'm helping people. Now it's more of a business. "

" I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic. "

" I'm a late bloomer in music. "

" I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet. "

" People always ask me, 'Why do you only write about heartbreak?' I think I only write when I'm broken, so that's just what happens. It makes me feel better, but having some distance helps. "

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" I like having a home. I like having a place to return to. "