Thi Phuong Thao Nguyen Quotes

“The album was the creation of a space where all of the different lives I've led. My life has been really divided and this was a place where I could finally gather them all up and they would be in one place. So that my professional life and personal life exist together.”

“The lyrics are the most important part for me and I spend most of my time on the lyrics. When I'm in that process, I try to write every morning. I wake up and write and then just spend as much time as I can generating content and lyrics. Nothing happens until the music exists and then I'm writing to the music.”

“I wanted to try to be a real live person, rather than just singing songs about them.”

“I had these ideas, which propelled some of the songwriting, that I was moving to a different place with. I thought it would be more change. I thought, 'Maybe I'll call him,' or whatever, which I haven't done. But it was really important to me. These were the songs that were going to exist in this time.”

“Not ever in depth. When I was first starting out, it was so much about me and my ethnicity. I was really turned off to that. But now I've seen that it's just really important to bolster that part of it as well, just so that there's an example of someone—a woman of color—doing something that may or may not be within the realm of what is expected.”

“So when I can, I try my best to meditate a little bit every day, and that helps a lot. I think that just taking a minute, or however long you can, and really acknowledging everything that you have.”

“The album was the creation of a space where all of the different lives I've led. My life has been really divided and this was a place where I could finally gather them all up and they would be in one place. So that my professional life and personal life exist together.”

“The lyrics are the most important part for me and I spend most of my time on the lyrics. When I'm in that process, I try to write every morning. I wake up and write and then just spend as much time as I can generating content and lyrics. Nothing happens until the music exists and then I'm writing to the music.”

“I wanted to try to be a real live person, rather than just singing songs about them.”

“I had these ideas, which propelled some of the songwriting, that I was moving to a different place with. I thought it would be more change. I thought, 'Maybe I'll call him,' or whatever, which I haven't done. But it was really important to me. These were the songs that were going to exist in this time.”

“Not ever in depth. When I was first starting out, it was so much about me and my ethnicity. I was really turned off to that. But now I've seen that it's just really important to bolster that part of it as well, just so that there's an example of someone—a woman of color—doing something that may or may not be within the realm of what is expected.”

“So when I can, I try my best to meditate a little bit every day, and that helps a lot. I think that just taking a minute, or however long you can, and really acknowledging everything that you have.”