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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Al Do Karaoke People Person Sing Want
I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Can Dance Guess Move Playful Say Serious Too Twist
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
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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Greatly Movie Raise Shape Since Them Very Watch Young
I don’t want to be elitist.
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Be Elitist Want To
Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Being Good Outsider Relly Writer
Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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Comunity Exist Ingratiate Myself Whenever Tried
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 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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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Good Inspiration Tour Writing
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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
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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