I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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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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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