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

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

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

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" 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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed. "

" I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel. "

" I couldn't wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don't really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that's what I wanted to do. "

" I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to. "

" 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. "

" When you're young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously. "

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

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

" I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I really just care about making music and how I can make it next. "

" It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely. "