Clairo Quotes

We all kind of dreamed about being musicians, but the narrative around being a musician is it’ll never happen to you. It’s not something that just happens – one in a million shot – all those things that just make you feel like it’ll never happen.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

YouTube was always a secret space for me. I’d randomly post videos of me singing with guitar, or sometimes I’d post some half-finished film projects I’d made.

My live show experience has not been good. It’s just because I haven’t had a band or anything. I played a show in Santa Ana that I’m just not proud of at all. It came out of the blue, and I kind of freaked out and took the opportunity because it was the biggest thing I’ve ever been offered.

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.

Before ‘Pretty Girl’ was released, I didn’t really talk about my YouTube channel or show anyone. I didn’t expect any of my videos to blow up like ‘Pretty Girl’ did.

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

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

‘Better’ is one of the first real steps I’ve made into ‘pop music,’ and this collab feels like a match made in Heaven!