MO

Musician

1988-08-13

Quotes by MO

• Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.

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• Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.

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• As a teenager my favorite band was Sonic Youth, and everything they did was always obviously them, and always so artistic. There was another layer of meaning, underneath everything, that you could search for.

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• I think everyone grew up thinking that by their mid-20s they'd have everything sorted out, but I know I don't.

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• I got into music around the age of eight years old, and I think the reason why was because I discovered the Spice Girls. I fell in love with them, and it was the first time I ever felt like the music was just directed to me.

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• When I was seven-years-old I discovered the Spice Girls. I fell in love immediately, and I decided I wanted to be a musician myself. This became my goal and my biggest passion to strive for. And so I dressed up as a pop star at Halloween 1996.

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• The first song I ever wrote was called 'Because I Love You.' I was very inspired by the Spice Girls and they were singing about love and stuff and I was seven.

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• I had everything you could collect. I had these Spice Girls postcards. I also had the stickers and Barbie girls. I had all five of them. I was a real fangirl. They were actually preaching some cool stuff, the thing about girl power and sticking together with your best girlfriends.

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• I tend to learn from mistakes that I've made. Even though it sucks to make bad choices, sometimes it's good to fail.

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• A lot of my songs are about being a teenager with a tornado in your head.

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• I guess after the whole success with 'Lean On' - me being introduced into this more mainstream audience - I was a little scared of being my true self, and being vulnerable and being gritty.

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• I really like FKA twigs. She's wonderful. She's so cool. Like, insanely cool.

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• I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.

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• When I was around 12 or 13 my older brother had this friend who was a goth. He was dressed all in black... You know like super, super goth! I was just so drawn to that darkness and weirdness. I just wanted to rebel. And now that I think about it, rebel against what? I mean I have lovely parents and brother and things were always very great.

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• I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would actually be singing on a top 10 Billboard song.

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