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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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