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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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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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 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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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’m not an innovator.
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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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and 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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