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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Every Feel Privilege Resistance Such Turn
I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Call Girl Intense One People Those Was
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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Artist Brand Feel Human Icon Like Make Many Music Musician Non So Sometimes Understand
You can never learn enough about music.
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Enough Learn Music never
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
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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Been Careful Clear Lit Make Media Person Real Social Very
I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
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 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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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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