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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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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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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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