Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
MITSKIYou 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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 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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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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