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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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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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