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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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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.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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