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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.

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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 I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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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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 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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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