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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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