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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.

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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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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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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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