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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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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
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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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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