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" I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country. "

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" When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn't have a personal life. "

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

" Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I've watched them since I was very young, and I've been greatly shaped by them. "

" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

" I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed. "

" My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences. "

" On one hand, I think it's very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it's not talked about, then we won't progress. What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist. "

" You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from. "

" I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot. "

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

" I was one of those girls people called 'intense.' "

" I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp. "

" If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me. "

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

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

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

" When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up. "

" I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have. "

" I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment. "

" On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky. "

" Sometimes when I perform, and it's obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it. "

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

" 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. "

" If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there. "

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

" I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music. "

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