I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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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 makes you a really good writer.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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