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" I was like a hermit; I didn't really have a lot of homies I would kick it with. I was in high school, I was failing all my classes, and I wanted to make music. "

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" I'm the only child of immigrant parents, you know? So all the pressure is just kind of on me: You have to make it. And I was like, 'Well, let me make it in music.' They were like, 'Nah, you gotta go to school.' "

" If you want to be expressive about something, do it. If you want to keep something to yourself, keep it to yourself. I have my own ways, people have theirs. "

" My parents took me to Sam Ash, and I got a pretty cheap setup - a MIDI keyboard and one of those cheaper mixers - but it was dope, though; it was something. That was kind of how it was: just going to school, skating back home, making music, telling my parents I did my homework. "

" I never had connections at any point to the industry. "

" I had always wanted to come to South by Southwest. It's really fun. "

" There's no secret crazy backstory. I actually suck at writing. It takes me forever to write a song. "

" It's cool to be in your feelings, and it's cool to be sad, and it's cool to feel all of these things. "

" It's cool to see a bunch of brown kids in the crowd. I wanna be a brown artist that they look up to. I didn't see that many artists with my same culture that I looked up to when I was growing up. The industry has always been whitewashed. "

" I'm not a singer. I double-track my vocals. I'm just not secure in my voice. I can't do single-track - I sound weird. "

" I don't really follow genres. I have a bunch of really poppy tracks and then another super-low-fi, tape-recorded sound. It's actually really random. "

" When I'm writing, I just kind of put myself in a place, in a certain time period in my life. "

" I would try to run when I was barely learning how to walk, so I would just fall. "

" I will wear chinos and Vans, and sometimes people will get confused. They're like 'Are you sure you're here to perform?' "

" I value companionship. I like being with my girlfriend, my best friends. I'm hella clingy. And I'm hella emotional. "

" I just always wanted to play guitar. I though that was, like, really dope. And then in high school, I learned how to play trumpet and, like, French horn because if the instrument's right in front of me, I'm going to just teach myself. "

" When I was, like, 16, I had, like, my first, like, bit of software and stuff. So then I started, like, making music and all that. "