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I was a really pretentious teenager.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

I never want to be pretentious.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.