I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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 feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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 someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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’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 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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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