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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 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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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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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