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  • I feel like I've figured out the way that I can talk about things that are important to me and have my music and the way of performance be healing and be helpful.
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  • I am fierce, yes, but I'm serious about music.
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  • If I'm not writing, I can download a newer album everybody's making a fuss about. But when I'm writing, I keep myself in my own zone - I worry about listening to new music that'll inform me too much. I'm the kind of person who goes to another country and starts speaking in an accent after three days.
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  • I like Feist's music because it's really smart, but it's really free and soulful at the same time. Sometimes you only get one or the other.
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  • I don't think I wrote my first song until I was 25. And then everything I wrote ended up becoming my first album. I put my music online, and from that, things just happened.
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  • For a while, I thought I would maybe be a writer. But with music, I was such a nerd; I was really obsessive about it. The problem was I couldn't really sing. I think one day I sang from a different part of my body, from my gut for the first time, and I was like, 'Oh! That's how you're supposed to do it.'
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  • I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is very good for it.
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  • When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.
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  • I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music.
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  • I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some loneliness in people. I really needed that when I listened to music growing up and even now, so I don't mind that sense of duty.
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  • I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.
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