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.

Amber Liu

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Gay, straight, bi, whatever - it doesn't matter. Love is love.

Amber Liu

gay matter love-is love

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.

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you hate sun love

As any human does, I have my happy times and sad times.

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any human sad happy

Always SPF! The sun is trying to eat you, pretty much.

Amber Liu

you always sun trying

The most important gift you can give anyone is honesty, and that's what I want to do.

Amber Liu

gift you honesty important

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.

Amber Liu

i-am understand myself stupid

People don't know what it's like being the foreigner until they are one.

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being like know people

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

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good me sitting waiting

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.

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t-shirt every-day day dance

I see that I'm very unique, but I'm not trying to be. I'm just being me.

Amber Liu

see me unique trying

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.

Amber Liu

look believe way world

I was on an army show, and in the army - especially in Korean culture - there's a very, very strict hierarchy. Obviously, you would not talk informally or disrespectfully to your commanding officer. But me, in my limited Korean, I basically told my commanding officer, 'Thou shalt forget!' The Korean public thought it was really funny.

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me you funny culture

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

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For me, when I went through my depression, I always felt like I was alone, and because people never understood me, I had to shut myself out from the world. Art and music was the only thing that could ever help me get over that.

Amber Liu

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I will always continue to work hard, become stronger, and learn to love myself for who I am, imperfections and all.

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i-am myself work love

I'm really scared of everything. I'm very, very emotional. I'm extremely soft!

Amber Liu

soft everything scared emotional

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.

Amber Liu

you blessing sometimes people

I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence.

Amber Liu

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Sometimes, when I do certain looks, I don't want the intention to be taken out of context or expressed in the wrong way.

Amber Liu

want sometimes looks way

I don't think you really get to know a person until you talk to them.

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