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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. "

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

" 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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, 'I love this place.' "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it. "

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

" Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art. "

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

" I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

" I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn't identify as that before I came here. People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way. "

" I couldn't wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don't really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that's what I wanted to do. "

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

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