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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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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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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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 took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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