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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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 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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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 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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