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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.

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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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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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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate 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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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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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