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

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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. "

" It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way. "

" I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me. "

" When I record, it's this very precious and insular thing. "

" I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable. "

" I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance. "

" I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious. "

" You can never learn enough about music. "

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

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

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

" Honestly, in the music business, it's all about being cool or being the newest thing or being the 'It' person, and I've tried really hard to be what is expected of me or what would be advantageous to my career, and I just reached the point where I said, 'No, I'm an emotional loser. I can't pretend to not care.' "

" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

" I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time. "

" What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology. "

" In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I'd never stayed in one place for so long. "

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

" 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 think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we're able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn's case, we as artists somehow made it 'cool' enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over. "