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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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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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 don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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