On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
MITSKIMiyazaki 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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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 you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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