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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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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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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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