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

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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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!’
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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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.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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You can never learn enough about music.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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