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" The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed. "

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

" I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment. "

" I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art. "

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

" 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. "

" It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over. "

" Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I've watched them since I was very young, and I've been greatly shaped by them. "

" 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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, I tend to not want to do that anymore. It's not even that I don't like it anymore: it's that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm not an innovator. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country. "

" 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!' "

" I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed. "

" 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. "

" You can never learn enough about music. "

" On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky. "

" I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment. "

" You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from. "

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

" When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.' "

" I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, 'I love this place.' "

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

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

" 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. "