When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
MITSKIMiyazaki 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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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 try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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’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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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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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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