"Well, it sort of bothers me that if a man is doing it, then it's fine. Like, if a woman had Bob Dylan's voice, how far would she have gotten? Or Leonard Cohen? And men can get away with saying more things that areāI don't know, it's kind of like, everyone could sit around and pat each other on the back. And that's not very interesting."
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