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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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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 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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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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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