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

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" Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!' "

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

" I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record. "

" 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'm punk, but I love gold. "

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

" I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art. "

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

" 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. "

" Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into. "

" 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. "

" 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 think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art. "

" I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel. "

" 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.' "

" A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that for me. I didn't think of it as a job or a career - it was just something that was constant. "

" Being an outsider makes you a really good writer. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that's important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way. "

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

" I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically. "

" 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. "

" 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 think music is supposed to be shared. "