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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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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Gold Punk Love
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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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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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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 understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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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 think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual 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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