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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.

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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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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’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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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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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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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.

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