All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKIMiyazaki 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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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