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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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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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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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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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