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" If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me. "

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

" 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 would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely. "

" I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained. "

" I'm punk, but I love gold. "

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

" I'm not an innovator. "

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

" Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

" What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology. "

" Honestly, in the music business, it's all about being cool or being the newest thing or being the 'It' person, and I've tried really hard to be what is expected of me or what would be advantageous to my career, and I just reached the point where I said, 'No, I'm an emotional loser. I can't pretend to not care.' "

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

" 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. "

" Whenever I've tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It's something I do automatically - I've learnt to immediately adapt. "

" 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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