Tones and I Quotes
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When I was busking, when I was paying for petrol with silver coins or when I was sneaking into hostels so I could park my van up and sleep in it, I had the best time of my life.
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Streaming services are very important.
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One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old.
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Dance Monkey' showed me that I'm good enough.
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I was living in my van, playing on the street for almost two years.
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I am being savagely bullied online.
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The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.
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Now I am at the point people are believing in my music, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't talk about what I believe in.
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I want to play the Super Bowl halftime show in America.
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No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing to other artists. But what's most important is that you have to be a good person and care about others and carry yourself well.
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I was getting a little bit bullied by guys who thought I was taking their customers, and it got to the point where I was anxious every time I set up my keyboard.
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Just because my song was being played on the radio didn't mean I had a load of money. You don't get royalties overnight.
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People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.
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Sometimes I don't think that I'm the most relatable female artist.
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There was a lot of times when I was busking there were a lot of people in your face, like 'More, more! Go again, again, again!'... People were so used to be able to swipe to see something different to entertain themselves that the patience had diminished.
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No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing me to other artists.
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I've always sung in the shower and I watched a lot of 'Rage' when I was young.
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I thought the world of live performance and busking was where I was going to thrive. I had no idea that digital streaming platforms and radio and that world would be for me, you know?
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I didn't even think my music was good enough to get on the radio in Australia.
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I didn't think I had a weird voice until everyone started saying I did.
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Thank you to Australia for letting me know that I'm OK just the way that I am.
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I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry any more. It's being brave and courageous and true to yourself.
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Well, the first Australian tour I literally just took busking to the stage.
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Dance Monkey' is about the bad side of busking.