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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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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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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 think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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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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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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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