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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 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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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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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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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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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