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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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