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Japanese - Musician Born: September 27, 1990

I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.'

Survive America Always American

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.

Music Me Time Chill

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

Something More Just Write

I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.

Life My Life Lived Abroad

I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.

Good I Am Smart Doing

I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.

Music You People Feel

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.

Social Media I Am Media Person

I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician.

Want Everyone Musician

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

Precious Very Thing Record

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

Me People Think Pressure

Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration.

Good Writing Inspiration Tour

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.

Me Travel Feel Place

It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way.

Good Me World Way

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.

Myself Music Believe Purpose

What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology.

Me Important Without Anything

There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive.

Women Hate Something Compete

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

Woman Better Color Always

I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.

Being About Institutions Thing

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.

Work You Job Think

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.

Life Me People Face

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

Life Hope Fingers Musician

I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing.

Think Bad Thing Bleak

On one hand, I think it's very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it's not talked about, then we won't progress. What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.

Me Progress Gender Think

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.

Movies Young I Was Raised Been

I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious.

Dance You Serious Say

You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.

Day You Culture White

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