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• ‟ I feel like, in the Czars, for example, I was afraid. I couldn't express myself. I didn't have a connection to myself. That's one of the huge reasons why it was such a difficult existence. I put a lot of that on myself. I couldn't access myself. I couldn't look at myself, because I was too ashamed.

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• ‟ I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.

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• ‟ I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.

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• ‟ I have to strip away all the layers when I'm writing the song. I have to cut through all these layers of years of putting up walls and putting protective layers around myself.

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• ‟ I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

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• ‟ I'm quite gregarious. But when it comes to relationships, I mean, I'm no good at it. I suck at it. And people say I'm way too hard on myself, but I always feel like somebody else is going to say it if I don't. Why not just beat them to the punch so it doesn't hurt so much?

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• ‟ When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

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• ‟ I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

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• ‟ I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

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• ‟ I can't allow myself to censor myself.

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