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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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