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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.

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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.
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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.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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.
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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.

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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.

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