"Reading and entering into other people's twisted little worlds is the only thing that makes me feel less alone," Cohen tells me in the weeks leading up to the release of her debut album, Overdressed.
"As someone who, at that time, had never been kissed or looked at by a boy, I was like, 'I need someone who gets me and how effed up my life is,'" Cohen says of her teenage obsession with the book's protagonist, Holden Caulfield.
"I'm like, 'Those freaky classics kids would never give me the time of day!'" she says. "I remember going to college and seeing the kids who'd gone to boarding school and being like, 'I'm from Texas and I don't know anything you're talking about.'
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