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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.

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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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 really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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