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All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

A lot of Asian girls love being basic because it's safe. But the thing is, a lot of my fans are those girls, and they want to be bolder, but there's no one they could look up to and be like, 'It's OK to be that way.'

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

I never quite became the monster I wanted to be. I feel mostly monstrous as I more become myself. Because the more you become yourself, the more it disturbs other people.

Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.

The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women.

I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?