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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.

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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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 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 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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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