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" 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. "

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" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

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

" I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country. "

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

" I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious. "

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

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

" 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 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 don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head. "

" I don't want to be elitist. "

" 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'm punk, but I love gold. "

" 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. "