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" All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey. "

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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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" 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. 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. "

" I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed. "

" When you're young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously. "

" It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over. "

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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. "

" I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician. "

" I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously. "

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" I really just care about making music and how I can make it next. "

" I don't want to be elitist. "

" I always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, 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. "

" I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that's important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way. "

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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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" It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely. "