Top 20 Clairo Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

When you’re just making something in your room, you’re not thinking that this box with a screen is gonna make you famous. You don’t think you’re putting yourself out there, because you don’t see it on the other side.

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

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.

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

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’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.

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.

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.

I’m a producer at heart.