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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" When I record, it's this very precious and insular thing. "

" I really like The Cars. They're just so over the top and super pop, but I don't feel guilty. I'm proud of all the music I listen to. "

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

" 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 think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me. "

" The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed. "

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

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

" 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'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. "