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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 couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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 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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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