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" I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically. "

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" 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 can never learn enough about music. "

" 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. "

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

" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

" It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way. "

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

" I can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant. "

" 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 my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up. "

" 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. "

" 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 didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.' "

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

" I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around. "

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

" When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself. "

" Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere. "

" Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty. "

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

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

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

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

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

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