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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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