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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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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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 don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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