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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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