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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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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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