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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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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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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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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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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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 think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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