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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.

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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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