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Sadness can feel so unproductive.
I'm marrying everybody I fall in love with.
I love going on walks and talking to people.
I do the least 'working on myself' in our band.
I can't really remember my first headline show.
But me writing sad songs doesn't mean I am a sad person.
Sometimes I'm so exhausted and I don't really want to play.
'Friday I'm in Love' sounds like the best possible summer song.
I'm obsessed with Elliott Smith, which is very common knowledge.
The Replacements don't sound like The Replacements half the time!
Often people have to wake me up from a nap to tell me to go on stage.
I think the longform email is exhilarating and exhausting at the same time.
You look at Taylor Swift, and every 'i' is dotted, every story is finished.
I didn't go to college and I worked so I could play music. That was my goal.
I did a CBS thing when I was a teenager that was a 'Music Minute' or something.
There are only couple songs that you can just hear and it'll put you in a great mood.
I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.
I don't get starstruck by musicians anymore, but podcasts? I'm a total podcast groupie.
I was planning to go into the studio in the summer of 2018, and then I started two bands!
I love a good chorus, you know? I consider a lot of what I love pop. I consider Mitski pop.
I have this thing in the back of my brain that dares me to think of the most disturbing thing.
There is nothing more useless than an album that you don't feel strongly about, out in the world.
Boygenius' was the first time I produced without a producer-producer in the room. It's been crazy.
Twitter is an extension of every dumb thought I have, firing it off - Instagram is a little more methodical.
When I'm writing, I try to think about what would make a song better before worrying about personal opinions.
The more specific you are about a very general feeling of loneliness is actually how you connect with people.
I feel like in pop music and even indie music, there's this weird thing where women have been pitted against each other.
I think the main thing which boygenius and I talk about ad nauseum, is that I feel like I just apologise for myself less.
Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label - I credit that all to my commercial work.
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.
I played at Room 5 a lot, which is probably the smallest capacity venue in Los Angeles. I begged my friends to come see me.
We're all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else.
People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people to produce me.
Once in a blue moon I'll have some sort of concept song or it will be about a bunch of different things, but yeah, it's all from experiences.
Joshua Kirk, the YouTube kid with the glasses who looks directly into the camera - I really love his album reviews. He's been doing it for years.
I love Sylvan Esso. I want to bring in more electronic elements, but also some analogue stuff. Stuff like '70s drum machines really fascinates me.
People are realising that vulnerability isn't a weakness, and the rise of mental health-related humour is making vulnerability feel like a strength.
I've never really been afraid of how people were going to define me, as long as I didn't write some cheaper song because people like that I'm depressed.
When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it so much, I actually don't play piano now.
I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it is, and why we all make music if it doesn't last forever.
I actually have a kind of fantasy about doing a covers album in general. My music taste is so eclectic, that I think it would be cool to put it through the funnel of my arrangements.
None of my family are musicians, but there was a lot of classic rock and country going on. I always wanted to sing. As soon as I expressed an interest my mom was super supportive of me.
I was actually with Conor Oberst on tour, and we were walking down the street getting a coffee. I walked into a random hipster-y coffee shop and I heard my own song, and I was so stoked.
My songwriting is very personal. The music that influenced me was so impactful that had I grown up somewhere else, I know I would still write the same way I do because of those influences.
Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm not really sad about something, or wanting to sort through something dark.
All the things people hate about touring, I'm excited for, because I've never done it before. I'm excited to see places I've never seen and be in the van and see if I get carsick while reading.
For every single person who's struggled with depression, there's this weird part of your brain that tells you you're the only person who's ever felt like that, even if you know for a fact it's not true.
A lot of my close friends are musicians and are consumed by the idea of death; their heads are like a torture chamber. I'm not like that - I don't have death anxiety and I don't think about it all the time.
If you're saying you're epically depressed in a song, you better be able to back it up. You better be able to talk about it in a smart way with someone who comes up to you after a show and is looking for help.
I don't want to get all self-help on everyone. But I definitely think there was a period in my life where I thought I would feel the same way, forever. And every day felt like 'Groundhog Day,' where I was super, super depressed.