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No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

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Best, How, Songs, Profanity

I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

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I Remember, Loud, Obnoxious, Kicked

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

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Possibilities, Melodies, Sonic

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

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Records, Like, Sell, Marginalized

It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.

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Here, Your, Bit, Subscription

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.

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Green, Blend, Also, Full-On

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.

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Simple, Doing, Back, Theoretically

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

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Summer, Wear, Deem, Inappropriate

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

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Like, Seemed, Least, Xbox

That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.

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Play, Upset, Got, CDs

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

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Surprise, Know, Why, Surprises

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

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Me, Never, Wearing, Perfection

My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.

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Career, Never, Which, Riddled

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

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Reading, Other, Over, Insightful

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

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Art, Pain, Think, Good Art

I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.

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Want, Mentality, Before, Impulse

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

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Production, Social, Use, Grandiose

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.

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I Was Raised, Raised, Very, Housewife

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.

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Vegas, New, Makes, Hassle

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

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Remember, Movies, How, Defined

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

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Young, Mature, Very, Defined

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

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Feel, Everybody, Remade, Kitty

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.

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Still, Musical, Though, Bedroom

Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody.

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My Life, Through, Here, Soundtracks

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.

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Needed, Endlessly, Forced, Feelings

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

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Think, I Think, I Write, Feelings

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

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Myself, Mirror, Songs, Hip-Hop

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

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Like, Needed, Being, Represent

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

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Lucky, Some, Expecting, Conform

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

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Trust, My Life, Always, Instincts

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