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

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• ‟ I always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, I tend to not want to do that anymore. It's not even that I don't like it anymore: it's that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.

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• ‟ Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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

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• ‟ I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music.

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• ‟ You can never learn enough about music.

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• ‟ I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.

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