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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 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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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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