I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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