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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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