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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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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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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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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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