"“When people looked at me they couldn’t recognize any of the history of me, like, ‘Where is she from? What’s her ethn…"

"“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…"

"“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…"