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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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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 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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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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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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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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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