Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art.

Whenever I've tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It's something I do automatically - I've learnt to immediately adapt.

It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.

When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try.

I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

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.

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.

When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up.

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.

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.

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

You can never learn enough about music.

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.

I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.

I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art.

I don't want to be elitist.

I was one of those girls people called 'intense.'

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.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

I'm not an innovator.

I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have.

I think music is supposed to be shared.

I'd always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there's a sense that you're never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.