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" Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument. "
Frankie Cosmos
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" 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. "
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" Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. "
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" I feel like touring is a man's game. And I don't think that's sexist; I just think, on tour, you can't really take care of yourself the way you want to. "
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" I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things. "
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" I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things. "
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" Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can. "
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" I never was interested in acting, and I never became good at it. "
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" The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the performance, but they're probably also going to be writing about what I was wearing or my hair, which just doesn't happen to men. "
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" What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.' "
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" Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else. "
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" 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. "
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Giving
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" I love going to weddings. I love movie scenes of weddings. Even, like, TV-show weddings - I cry at every wedding. "
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Love
" 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. "
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Seeing
Age
Feel
" The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates. "
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Music
Job
Playing
" 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. "
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Road
Book
Car
" Sometimes I'm really mean to someone who just hugged me. I never thought that I would be like that. "
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Me
Thought
Sometimes
" I try to not assume things are sexism. I'm trying to be good natured about why things are happening. "
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" I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?' "
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" 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.' "
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You
Singer
" I've definitely gotten to the point where we get to the venue, and people know that I'm in charge of the band. "
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Know
" There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not. "
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Us
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" I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships. "
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Relationships
Live
Life
" If I could have a record that represents every stage of my life, I'd be putting out one a month. Everything is always changing, and so is the way that I feel about stuff. "
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" I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried. "
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" You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. "
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I Can
Meet
" 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. "
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" When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do. "
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" 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. "
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Song
" 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. "
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Good
Music