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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.

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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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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 you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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