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

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

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

" I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician. "

" When you're young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously. "

" 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. "

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

" Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration. "

" I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness. "

" When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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 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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, I tend to not want to do that anymore. It's not even that I don't like it anymore: it's that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me. "

" I'd always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there's a sense that you're never young enough, or your career is going to end soon. "

" Whenever I've tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It's something I do automatically - I've learnt to immediately adapt. "

" You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained. "

" I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion. "

" 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. "