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

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" 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'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head. "

" I can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant. "

" My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that for me. I didn't think of it as a job or a career - it was just something that was constant. "

" I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country. "

" 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. "

" When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try. "

" I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we're able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn's case, we as artists somehow made it 'cool' enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over. "