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Back in the day, I was definitely a child of alternative radio.
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Alternative
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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Ambiguity
Interpret
Room
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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Convince
Stuff
Weirder
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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Attached
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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Band
Cousin
Traveled
Music Writing Like
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I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.
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Compare
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Budget
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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Harder
Pay
Stressful
Future Will More
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School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.
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Always Where Mind
Bachelor
Geared
Towards
Guess
Just Kind
Practical
Um
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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Arena
Cocky
Each Day
Steps
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When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.
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Intimate
Always Me People
Acoustic
Assume
Me Expectations People
Lowered
Vibe
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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Hesitant
Linked
Absolutely
Success Believe Me
Absolutely Not
Bring
Major
Label
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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Setting
Tables
Miss
Joking
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I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.
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Gigs
Habit
Planning
Good Myself Day
Deciding
Extra
Relaxing
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I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.
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Band
Punk
Cover
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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Lyrical
Melody
Sound
Build
Intentions
Production
Overall
Start
Story
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I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.
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Savings
Times Square
Waitress
Ridiculously
Square
Start-Up
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I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.
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Moments
Builds
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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Anxious
Always Me Black
Colors
Defer
Match
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Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
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Months
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Wonder
Life Experience Home
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I hyper-analyze everything; I'm always in my head. Those moments where you don't think and you're just part of the environment did not come easily to me, but it was those moments and highs that I chased.
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Environment
Moments
Always Where Me
Chased
Easily
Head
Highs
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I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.
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Ceo
Finances
Sacrifices
Ultimately
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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Hustle
Moved
Normal
Raised
Work Me New
Invested
Seemed
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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Funding
Labels
Artists
Dropped
Major
Quick
Released
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If I'm happy with what I'm putting out and proud of it - that is becoming enough for me. It's testing myself, but I'm ready to do it, whereas I wasn't ready before. Sometimes it's feigned confidence, but if I make a decision, I can do anything.
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Myself Decision Me
Whereas
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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Cab
Experimentation
Alternative
Currently
Finding
Shift
Stumbled
Vibe
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