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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.

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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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