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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious. "

" Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it. "

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

" I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time. "

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

" I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable. "

" Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!' "

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

" 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'm punk, but I love gold. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that's important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way. "

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