We’ve both got a million bad habits to kick, not sleeping is one. We’re biting our nails, you’re biting my lip, I’m biting my tongue.
Maybe the internet raised us, or maybe people are jerks.
Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.
As soon as you say it about a record, you’re like some little zombie in a funny dungeon.
Let me in the ring. I’ll show you what that big word means.
If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough.
Delicate in every way but oneGod knows we like archaic kinds of funChance is the only game I play with, babyWe let our battles choose us.
We’re so happy, even when we’re smiling out of fear.
And nothing’s wrong when nothing’s trueBut I live in a hologram with you.
I’m kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.
We gladiate, but I guess we’re really fighting ourselves.
I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: ‘strength.’
The phrase ‘teen hottie’ literally makes me want to throw up.
Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren’t pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I’ve always read poetry; I’ve always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
I’ve always listened to a lot of rap. It’s all, ‘Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.’ It’s super fun.
I curate my life in a way. It’s always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I’m not one of those people who’s, like, ‘I wish Facebook wasn’t around,’ because, you know, it is what it is.