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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Attain Country Culture Dream Enter Inherited never Something
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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Around Form Identity Know Think Whole
If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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Bring High Low Notes Really Some Somewhere Song Try Want
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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Audience Get People Play Pressure Show Think
I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Always Anywhere Country Fit Grew Survive Up
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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Always Constant Jobm Career Lot Music Musician Something Start Talk Want
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Artist Gonna Hate Opinion Other Record
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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Bend Job Love Make Minority Really Someone Want Work
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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Eat Go Healthy Out Properly Regimented Sleep Stay Try Work
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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Audience Between Existence Feel Just Obvious Party Perform Sometimes
On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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Gender Hand Important One Progress Race Ralk Very
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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Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
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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Been Careful Clear Lit Make Media Person Real Social Very
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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Ask Eat Ever Know People Want Your
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very

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