“They’re trying every legal trick in the book to impose authoritarianism on this country, with voting rights and all the stuff that we were singing about then is now coming to fruition.”

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“I also made the demo version of the track in the back of an hour-long Uber ride.”

“Bad things don’t always happen to bad people, and sometimes we have to watch the people who’ve broken us the most, win loudly and publicly.”

“You don’t get a real winter. Christmas feels weird. I make sure I go back home because it’s literally the same thing every day. La-La Land. Pleasantville.”

“My grandmother used to have a house in the Bronx, and she bought a house in New Jersey, so I’ve basically always been wherever my grandmother was.”

“It’s definitely pop, and I love pop. But I also am trying to challenge myself in terms of what that label might mean for the music I make.”

L.A.-based artist and “sonic disrupter” Damien Styles told us how he beat anxiety issues through music.

“The seething raw power cut through with delicate emotion mapped my internal workings pretty accurately.”