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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't want to be elitist. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. Then you start to realise, 'Oh, I'm bending a lot,' and they're just standing there existing, and I'm bending around them. But you can't blame them: they don't realise it; that's just how they already existed. It's hard. "

" Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "