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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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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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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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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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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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