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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.

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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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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