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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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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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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 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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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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