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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.

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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 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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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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