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" Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere. "

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" 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. "

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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'd always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there's a sense that you're never young enough, or your career is going to end soon. "

" 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 know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance. "

" I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions. "

" I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have. "

" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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