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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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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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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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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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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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