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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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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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 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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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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.
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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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