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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.
I want to break that typical Asian female stereotype. There's this standard where they're all calm. I want to break that.
There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.
I don't need awards to show me how successful I am or to prove to me that I'm doing a good thing and that I'm succeeding.
'I'm a Celebrity' has been an amazing ride, and I'm walking out of here with some amazing friendships. It's been awesome.
In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.
Queen were the first western band I got hooked on. I got a bootleg - there was hardly any legal buying of CDs in Georgia.
The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.
Just because I might be bored doesn't mean I have to look boring. I'd rather look fabulous, like I'm having a great time.
I literally have a bowl of Jolly Ranchers sitting in my studio. You can just pop those things in. They're really amazing.
Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
I enjoy working out. I really do. I like the way my heart gets pumping, and sweaty, and I feel challenged; I feel strong.
I have no idea where I want to go musically, but I'm fine that way. I don't need to be faithful to any concept, you know.
To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.
There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
I think that's the fascinating thing about the '70s is that it turns out it was quite a dark decade. But, like, who knew?
Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.
I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.
I just love Fortitude Valley, I love all of it. It is such a progressive hub, it feels like the East Village of New York.
I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.
I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life.
You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.
Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.
Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.
Once I faced the fact I was going to deal with illness for the rest of my life, I got on with what I really wanted to do.
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning 'full of the spirit.' I do believe that it comes to you.
I think Taylor Swift, in the days when she was kind of doing more country style, definitely was a big inspiration for me.
Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.
I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.
A lot of my writing is done on the road so I can take the music on my iPod, work out a melody then record it into Cubase.
My mom is one of those women... she don't take no mess. She is very vocal about what she wants and what she doesn't want.
I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.
I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.
The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'
I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.
I have learned to smile when I wasn't happy, to sing when I didn't feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans.
I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.
I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them.
When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever.
I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it.
System of a Down is the music that I wanted to buy but couldn't find at the store. It's the band I wanted to be a fan of.
We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.
It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.