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I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.
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It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.
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Honestly, I hate Facebook - it has nothing on Myspace. I loved how weird and crappy and wild and trashy it was. Then there was the whole culture of pimping out your Myspace page. I remember spending 10 hours one day learning how to make our Myspace page look more like a message board from the mid-90s.
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When something goes into the world, you immediately begin to develop another perspective on yourself, another identity.
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It's always a struggle to make things sound more or less brilliant.
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There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.
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We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things. Sometimes a writer or actor will reach out and make it very personal.
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I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.
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In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.
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I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.
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Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.
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I think sometimes songwriting becomes diluted when you have lots of components to mask a lack of core.