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I couldn’t speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I’m regarded as one of their own in Japan.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I’ll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

You look just like you!

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

I’m an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

I’m not going to disappear.

To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I’m not feminist. I’m just a woman.

But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there’s any barriers. I’ve never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.