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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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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 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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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