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" 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. "

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" 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'm punk, but I love gold. "

" Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration. "

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

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" I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness. "

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

" I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about. "

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

" 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 don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment. "

" I was one of those girls people called 'intense.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't want to be elitist. "

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