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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.

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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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Adult End Everything Mellow Out Sad Teenager Thing Think Worth
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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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 think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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Could Just Me Mine Music One Put Thing
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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Feel Finally Like Myself Onstage Perform Want Way
Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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