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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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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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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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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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