I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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’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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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 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 try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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