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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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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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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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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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