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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very
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 what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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 people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I’m not an innovator.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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