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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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Closer Country Folk Listen Old Pop Really
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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Actually Change Compeletely Different Feel Force Sing Sound Style Unnatural
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
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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Chill Downtime Hard Make Music Think
Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Like Music Say Someone Something
I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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Also Camp Country Neither Want White
I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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Able Artist Communities Fight Our Reason Responsibility Think
I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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Conveniently Emotion Fade Memory Overwhelming Photographic Thing Very
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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Been Careful Clear Lit Make Media Person Real Social Very
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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Artist Brand Feel Human Icon Like Make Many Music Musician Non So Sometimes Understand
I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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Around Form Identity Know Think Whole
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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Belong Came Country Create Either Idea Realise
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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Believe Like Lot Make Media Music Social Something Start
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Around Artist Counties Father Folk Hink Music Obesess Perform World
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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Creative Film Job Major More Opportunity Reason Some Thought
When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Insular Precious Record Thing Very When
I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Decision Important Into Make Most Much Often One Put Times
I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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Always Been Death Fascinate Morbid Sound
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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Completer Control List Over Set Show Solo
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Anything Anywhere Belong Felt Grow Lot Moved My Own Really Up
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
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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Over Say Somebody Tempting Want When You
I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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