"I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper."
"I'm really scared of everything. I'm very, very emotional. I'm extremely soft!"
"There's a blessing that you're in a spotlight, but people follow you and want to keep asking you questions - it's just overwhelming sometimes."
"I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence."
"Sometimes, when I do certain looks, I don't want the intention to be taken out of context or expressed in the wrong way."
"In a T-shirt and basketball shorts - that's just my go-to: I'm ready for a workout. I'm ready to go play basketball. I'm ready to go dance. I'm ready to go into the studio. It's my getup for anything. I can get it dirty, which is fine. I can sweat in it; it's fine. It's nostalgic because it's what I wore every day as a kid."
"The sun sucks. I used to love the sun, but now I hate it because it just wants to kill everything. I always tell everyone, if you don't want to do skin care, fine, but at least put sunscreen on. The reason why we have little freckles, skin cancer, and wrinkles is because of the sun."
"I don't think you really get to know a person until you talk to them."
"I think that, definitely, as I've gotten older, my perspective changes. My love of music has definitely not changed; my love of the arts has definitely not changed."
"I do my taxes. I do my own bookkeeping. I pay rent."
"When you meet a lot of people and you date somebody, or you're just in a relationship with friends, lovers, business, or whatever it may be, there are people that are just toxic to you, and you don't even know it yourself."
"One of my goals always, when I write music, is that it's not only me sharing my story with the fans: it's also a reminder to myself that, 'Hey, I said this so that I need to grow from it.'"
"I was born and raised in West Hills. I moved to Korea when I was 15. I've been back and forth since."
"My parents are really supportive of everything I do."
"My mom was a house mom when we were growing up, and that's all I knew about her. I had a really big disconnect with her because she only spoke Chinese. Her English isn't good at all. Being a typical second-generation, you have the basic stuff, but I never had a deep conversation with her."
"As any human does, I have my happy times and sad times."
"I'm always in the studio working on music and dancing."
"Definitely, doing my solo stuff, it's fun in a different way. I get a lot more say. However, there's a lot more work to do because I have to make everything happen."
"I'm comfortable with myself now, and I understand how goofy I am, how stupid I can be, how emotional I can be, or how focused I can be."
"When I first debuted back in 2009, K-Pop was already starting to get bigger because of the Internet. And that's how I found it, because I'm not Korean."
"I just love music. Every genre of music: country, rock. I originally first loved punk rock. Pop punk. I don't know, just rock in general. And getting to rap. And now K-pop. Different types of music. I love everything."
"I've always felt like, you know, there's this imaginary wall that we ourselves put up or others do by saying that we can't do something."
"The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song."
"If I can give something to the next generation, I want to give a message of positivity, to believe in themselves, because I think the world has just a lot of unnecessary stresses to be a certain way, look a certain way, do certain things."
"I know when I was growing up, I was always lost and just thought I was alone and that I needed to find where I belonged."
