The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.

Clairo

Categorized in : Man Behind Success Hard

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

i-am story feel me

I'm a producer at heart.

producer heart

I felt like I needed to be a 'pretty girl' for someone else. I felt like I needed to change a lot about who I actually was to be perfect for them instead of just being who I am genuinely.

i-am someone girl change

I'm someone that needs to talk about my problems. I call my mom every single day at school just to vent about random stuff. Singing is the same thing.

random day singing school

I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine.

never extraordinary genuine want

It's crazy to feel like you have to sell yourself and just, like, be almost... marketable. I'd never thought of it that way.

yourself feel you crazy

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

best me music happy

My teacher wanted me to do 'Hot Cross Buns,' but all I wanted to learn was 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer.

me sun hot teacher

I had moved around my whole life. That was the one thing that was always so hard.

always one-thing hard life

I'm still not entirely sure how 'Pretty Girl' blew up the way it did. It wasn't really meant to. The song was originally meant for a compilation tape for a magazine called 'The Le Sigh', and I made the video in about 30 minutes.

pretty-girl girl song way

I remember the first album I really completely geeked out over was The Shins' 'Wincing The Night Away.' That album was everything to me.

everything me remember night

I was like this weird, edgy 10-year-old. I was figuring out who I was, obviously at the worst time. I had braces and bangs, and it was a nightmare.

weird like worst time

I bought this Oxygen midi synth from a flea market in Boston for $10. And then I found a cord in my house that fit it, and so I just started using that to do synth stuff in GarageBand.

just oxygen found house

It's really weird being placed into something like that because it was never an intention to make bedroom pop. I was just making music. All the people that have that genre placed on them are not the first people to have a home studio and and post it on the Internet.

internet music home people

At the end of the day, when people say, 'Oh, she's an industry plant,' I'm like, 'No, I just have representation, like every single other artist you listen to.' I'm not the first person to get a manager.

end-of-the-day day you people

I've always wanted to be a PC Music girl, like Hannah Diamond or SOPHIE.

like always music girl

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

personal place writing people

It keeps me from getting too overwhelmed about the industry when I can just do my math homework.

just me homework i-can

My stuff gets in a lot of vaporwave Facebook groups for some reason.

facebook some reason stuff

I make a point to tweet out really funny comments I get on YouTube videos. I have the most ridiculous ones.

comments youtube videos funny