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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.

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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.

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