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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. "

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" 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. "

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World

" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

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

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" Being an outsider makes you a really good writer. "

" I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music. "

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" I couldn't wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don't really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that's what I wanted to do. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot. "

" 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. "

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Too Much

Adapt

" I don't want to be elitist. "

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Want

Elitist

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about. "

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

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

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

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I Can

Believe

" I'm not an innovator. "

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Innovator

" 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. "

" There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive. "

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

" 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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Start

Music

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