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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 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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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 I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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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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 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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