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" 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. "

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" I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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" 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. "