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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.

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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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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.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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