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" After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.' "
People
Music
Me
" And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period. "
End
Find
Guitar
" But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am. "
Me
I Am
Hope
" Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music. "
Music
Fan
Listening
" If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs. "
You
Together
Solo
" I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. "
Chicago
Suburbs
Up
" I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me. "
Doing
Like
Me
" I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there. "
New York
Now
Time
" I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. "
New York
Love
Artist
" I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band. "
Right
Mean
Kind
" I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice. "
Me
Writing
Work
" I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes. "
Recording Studio
Started
People
" It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done. "
Band
Done
Enough
" It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian. "
Bring
Time
Mean
" Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues. "
Talking
Strong
Musicians
" My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs. "
Playing
First
Job
" No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too. "
Nice
Musicians
Successful
" So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience. "
Experience
Learning
Voice
" The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot. "
January
Up
Started
" There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work. "
Problems
Kind
Music
" We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that. "
New
Line
Cinema
" Well, I always hope that I'm a role model. "
Hope
Role
Always
" Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time. "
Time
Walk
Shopping
" Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band. "
Computers
Band
Drummer
" Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people. "
Yeah
Stereotypes
People
" You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do 'em well. "
Perfect
You
Hope
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