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" As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent. "

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" When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. 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. "

" I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, 'I love this place.' "

" I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically. "

" 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. "

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

" Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty. "

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

" I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable. "

" I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record. "

" Honestly, in the music business, it's all about being cool or being the newest thing or being the 'It' person, and I've tried really hard to be what is expected of me or what would be advantageous to my career, and I just reached the point where I said, 'No, I'm an emotional loser. I can't pretend to not care.' "

" I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious. "

" There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive. "

" I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel. "

" Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!' "

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

" With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There's nothing that's set. "

" I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn't identify as that before I came here. People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way. "

" Being an outsider makes you a really good writer. "

" I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time. "

" I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment. "

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

" I don't want to be elitist. "

" I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing. "

" I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me. "

" I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time. "

" I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art. "

" 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. "

" I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music. "

" 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. "

" Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art. "