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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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 ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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