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You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run into the problem of trying to earn a living and balancing the time that you spend working on your creative efforts to just getting the bills paid. You can go off the grid and live in a cabin and make whatever art you want and also provide all the sustenance you need and not interact with anybody else.

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You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and t…

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So when you're talking about lyrics in the context of music, it's not just about what the words mean, and what you were thinking about when you wrote…

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I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not incredibly intentional. There's a moment tha…

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I know that a lot of songwriters write about a break up. It's a really popular topic. I think heartbreak is the number one thing people write about. …

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Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

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I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to a…

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I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it. I don't care what the critics say." But di…

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Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going…

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My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have my own limitations in terms of what i…

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