I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate 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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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