If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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 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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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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 it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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