As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
MITSKIWhen 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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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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