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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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 can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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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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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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