I don't cry often.

I want to represent Asian women.

I'm not the standard Asian girl.

I'm a tomboy, and my style is punk.

I have so many things I want to say.

I like to play different characters.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

I love Grace Jones. She's everything.

Live well. Love deep. Tomorrow, we die.

I've always been colorful and taken risks.

In 2NE1, you mostly see just one side of CL.

I want to show who CL is on my first solo album.

We treat each album as our traces and our legacy.

I've been a fan of Dave Meyers and his music videos.

Jeremy Scott is a good friend, and we love his stuff.

I love men's clothes better than women's collections.

I love to perform and express myself to inspire people.

But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.

Love A$AP Rocky. I love his music, and I love his style.

I actually wrote the lyrics for 'Goodbye' in 10 minutes.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

Fashion and music are connected, since both are expressions.

When I perform or have work, I get my makeup done by an artist.

'I Love You,' was something different for our fans and for 2NE1.

I'm a city girl from Seoul City, where I grew up, to Tokyo & Paris.

I don't actually like calling myself a rapper. I'm more a performer.

I think it’d be a great honor to be able to influence someone’s joy.

There are always two sides to a person. CL is me, and so is Chaelin.

Culturally, I'm not 100 percent Korean. I'm very mixed and very open.

We're 2NE1, and we're from Korea. We're this girl band with great music.

You have to be who you truly are, and love who you are, to be beautiful.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

I feel like an alien sometimes, where I don't feel like I belong anywhere.

Normally, people think of Asian women as timid, but I think I'm very strong.

I know how important '36 Chambers' is, and it inspired me to record 'Lifted.'

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.

What I do is all about expressing myself, whether it's music or the clothes I wear.

I don't want to take too much responsibility, where I'm like, 'Oh, I'm representing Asia.'

I know from my own experience that anything is possible, that there's nothing you can't do.

2NE1 was special because we each had different characters and styles, for individual tastes.

Some people want to tell me what's right for me, and I have to stick up for myself all of the time.

Working with Method Man was such an honor. I love his music even though I didn't grow up in his era.

Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way.

I'm not against being beautiful or sexy or anything, but I have this 'cool' image that I want to keep.

N.Y. is definitely one of my favorites. Love the culture, people, attitude and music, art, and fashion.

I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.

We're into discovering ourselves as 2NE1. Since all four of us are different, we inspire and push each other.

My dad didn't like staying in one place, so we moved around every year - to a new house, new town, new country.

Growing up, I listened to a lot of Queen and Lauryn Hill because of my dad. Those are songs that have messages.

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