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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.

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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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 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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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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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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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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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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