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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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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 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’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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 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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