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" Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things. "

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" I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around. "

" I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions. "

" The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed. "

" When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself. "

" It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely. "

" On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I'm becoming a stereotype, but it's what I want to eat. I want to eat rice. "

" I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about. "

" You can never learn enough about music. "

" Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere. "

" I really just care about making music and how I can make it next. "

" I can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant. "

" I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.' "

" As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent. "

" I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it. "

" I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing. "

" With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There's nothing that's set. "

" I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction. "

" I really like The Cars. They're just so over the top and super pop, but I don't feel guilty. I'm proud of all the music I listen to. "

" I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously. "

" When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.' "

" I'm punk, but I love gold. "

" I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks. "

" Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something. "

" All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey. "

" I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music. "

" I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, 'I love this place.' "

" There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive. "

" I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to. "

" I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art. "