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Appointments' is largely just derived from pieces of dialogue with another person, and then also what's going on inside of my own mind, or a person's own mind. They're intended to be a little bit exaggerated and a satire of things that we're not sure are entirely true, or maybe biased.
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When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record.
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The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it.
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Some shows feel very reverent - when you're in a seated theater, no one really sings. I love it when people sing! I wish people would sing all the time. Because one of my favorite things when I get to do as a musician is step away from the microphone and listen to everyone sing together.
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If 1,500 people are gonna see me and they each pay $20, I want to give them everything that I possibly can. They just made an exchange that allows me to live a dream of mine since I was a child. And that's not lost on me. So I want to expend every ounce of power and energy I have.
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I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.
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I feel like it's a necessary part of musical development to go through that phase where you think that your favorite style of music is the only style of music, and I thought that for a while.
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My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.
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Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.
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There's no musician who just wakes up one day and decides, 'This is what I want to do.' It takes some development.
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Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.
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My parents wouldn't let me listen to 'American Idiot.' So it felt very rebellious to go over to my friend's house after school and listen to it in secrecy.
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There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.
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One thing I'm super aware of in my music when I'm writing is: 'Am I overcomplicating this?' I'll write a song about some deep existential quandary and explore all these dumb thought waves, and then think 'Is it effective to say that? Or is it effective to say one simple thing that communicates the feeling better?'
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I think people learn best and are more engaged when it's just normal relatable situations that illustrate the principles they're discussing.
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Sometimes, what's helpful is to admit that we are discouraged and admit that we are at a loss.
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Sometimes, it feels artificial to try to come up with a solution to something that none of us know how to solve.
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There are so many people in Memphis who have real reasons to be angsty, but I was just a suburban white kid with all this misplaced rage.
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There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.
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Painting with broad strokes, I feel like a lot of journalism makes it out to be like the collective consciousness has a finite imagination for multiple women at one time in a similar genre.
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Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'
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I adopted this idea whether I was going to end up making music for three people in a bar or Wembley Stadium, I was always going to do music.
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I don't think I'll ever get that tour ennui. Just getting to visit New York and all these different places - I'm always so excited to look at the window. I look like a crazy tourist stumbling around... 'This is beautiful.'
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There are bands who write of emotions that are very heartbreaking, touching, or relatable, but they'll be like concept records, they're about fictional characters.
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With my first high school band ever, we would have these breaks in the song for idiotic solos, solos that were un-tasteful and would be shredding, but I needed to put them in there, and I realize now it's because we were playing shows with a whole bunch of bands that were all male.
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When I first started playing guitar, I would sit in my room for hours and learn scales.
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I make sure I'm appreciative and can an encounter the world in a humble way.
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I do not want to make art and then try to dictate how people use it, or how people interact with it.
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I don't think that you can just walk through life without all of your experiences informing your perspective on the world.
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I was a very emotional teenager. But I wish that I could tell myself that I matter more than I think. Things are a bigger deal than I think they are, but they're also not as big a deal as I think they are. My mistakes are not the end of the world.
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I played with a band, and the lead singer would always introduce me as 'the 13-year-old lead guitarist.' I didn't want to be a novelty, like 'Oh, she has three arms! Check her out.' But I've learned to accept it as more of a compliment.
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There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'
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It used to be you would need a couple grand to make a record at a studio. Now, you can do it on freaking GarageBand.
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The more we can personalise, the more the market can fragment, because of all the availability that streaming presents. Things become old sooner. That's terrifying.
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The more blessings or resources you have at your disposal, the more I become aware of... how should I steward this? It's supposed to be an investment that I can turn around and create art that gives something to other people. Ugh, that sounds like the most Miss America answer of all time.
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