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We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.
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If you don't have negative experiences, you have no way to gauge the positive ones, and you have no way to deal with it.
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A country is an individual in the world that represents a group of people, so I decided we would name our band after a country, and Portugal happened to be the one that popped up.
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There are some athletes who I feel like are just looking for likes, and then there are people who are just real.
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'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.
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The worst gift I have ever gotten on Christmas is going to see Tim Allen in 'The Santa Clause.'
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Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.
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To be an artist that is fully original, it doesn't exist.
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I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.
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We went to Japan and stayed an extra day just to go shopping. New York is one of those places where we never get that. If we're there, we're working.
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My dad just decided that he wanted to race sled dogs, and when he did that, he took us out of Wasilla, and we never really went back.
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The Alaskan summers are one of the most amazing things you can see.
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