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

I think it's in my blood: both of my parents are very hard workers and were always working when I was growing up. I love working and what I do.

I want to break that typical Asian female stereotype. There's this standard where they're all calm. I want to break that.

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

People that have known me for a while tell me how they see me grown as an artist and as a writer. I think that this comes with continuing writing each day. I try to write as often as I can and explore more while I do it. I feel more comfortable with opening up and telling more of my story to everyone.

When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.