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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’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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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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 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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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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