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

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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. "

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

" I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion. "

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

" 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 your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual 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. "

" 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. "

" When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself. "

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

" I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction. "

" When I record, it's this very precious and insular thing. "

" When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" You can never learn enough about music. "

" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

" I don't want to be elitist. "

" I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities. "

" I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it. "

" On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky. "

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

" I'm not an innovator. "

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