I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
MITSKIWhen you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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 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 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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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