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" 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. "

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" When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. Then you start to realise, 'Oh, I'm bending a lot,' and they're just standing there existing, and I'm bending around them. But you can't blame them: they don't realise it; that's just how they already existed. It's hard. "

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

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

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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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