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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.

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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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