When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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 one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I’m not an innovator.
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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 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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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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