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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.

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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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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 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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.

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