"“By the time it was done my heart was pounding like I just saw the rest of my life. I was fucking doomed.”"

"“I’ve always grown up feeling lonely or other, but through my music, I can be like: ‘Look, we’re the same, we’ve felt…"

"“I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’…Yes, it…"

"“I write personal stories about relationships, and living in this world and being a human being…but I happen to live …"

"“I like to say something in as little time as possible…I don’t think I have the fundamental confidence necessary to w…"

"“I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think …"

"“Even when I’m in a scene I don’t think of myself as being in the scene. I’m very conscious of myself being an outsid…"

"“…this song is quite autobiographical because I didn't grow up in the U.S. I am half Japanese, and it came from wanti…"

"“You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that …"

"“In tenth grade—this says a lot about how developmentally delayed I was—I had in my mind that it was the proper thing…"