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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
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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Gender Hand Important One Progress Race Ralk Very
I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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Over Say Somebody Tempting Want When You
Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
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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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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Music Share Suppose Think
I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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 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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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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Bend Job Love Make Minority Really Someone Want Work
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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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.
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