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I'm punk, but I love gold.
I don't want to be elitist.
I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing.
I think music is supposed to be shared.
Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
I was one of those girls people called 'intense.'
When I record, it's this very precious and insular thing.
I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
I can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant.
I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.
I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician.
I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.
Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically.
I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious.
I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance.
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'
I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.
It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, 'I love this place.'
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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.
When you're young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.
I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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.
On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me.
I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology.
I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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.
In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I'd never stayed in one place for so long.
The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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.