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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.

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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.

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