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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up. "

" I can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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 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. "

" My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot. "

" My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences. "

" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

" I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky. "

" 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. "

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

" Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere. "

" 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. "