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" 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. "

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

" 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 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 at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things. "

" Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into. "

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

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

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

" 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 really like The Cars. They're just so over the top and super pop, but I don't feel guilty. I'm proud of all the music I listen to. "

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

" 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. "

" Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I've watched them since I was very young, and I've been greatly shaped by them. "

" On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I'm becoming a stereotype, but it's what I want to eat. I want to eat rice. "

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

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

" When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn't have a personal life. "

" 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 set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You can never learn enough about music. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to be elitist. "