I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.
I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.
The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.
I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.
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