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" There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive. "

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" Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into. "

" I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around. "

" When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness. "

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

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

" I can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant. "

" I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house. "

" I'm not an innovator. "

" The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed. "

" I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.' "

" I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art. "

" I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion. "

" My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot. "

" 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. "

" I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have. "

" I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks. "

" Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things. "

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

" You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained. "

" It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way. "

" I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable. "

" 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. "

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

" On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky. "