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" 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. "

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" I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music. "

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

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I don't want to be elitist. "

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

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

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

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

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