Amber Liu Quotes

I hear that I dress like a boy and that I should be more girly, which I can understand, but I just focus on what I want to do and enjoy my time with fans who love me for who I am.

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.

In f(x), when I’m doing K-pop, that’s cool – that’s our concept. But me, as a solo artist, I’m just me. I’m gonna wear my jeans, my Jordans, and I’m just gonna be a little stupid on stage.

I was terrified to go solo. It’s lonely doing it by myself. But I wanted to challenge myself.

I’m always in the studio working on music and dancing.

I think we should let our guards down a little bit more.

I’m all for equality.

We’re all fighting for the same thin,g and I hope that the fight for equality, the fight to help people get over their anxiety or depression, whatever thing they’re going through, I hope that we can all come together more as a community.

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.

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

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won‘t do me any good.

Instead of trying to group people into something and have this one assumption, get to know someone for who they are. I guess a lot of people are really lazy to start getting to know people or make that effort.

My Mandarin is slowly getting worse.

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.

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 wanted to tour the United States because I feel I owe it to the community that I grew up in. When I was growing up, the only people I saw on TV were Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu and Jet Li. Our representation as Asians wasn’t big, but I wanted to be like Lucy Liu and then Maggie Q.

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

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 felt very motivated to release some things in English because I wanna represent my community.

I worked at a school supply store as a cashier.

I definitely went through this whole phase of seeing what my seniors or friends would be wearing and just copying that.

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.

I always had good skin as a little kid, but when I turned 25, everything just went south.

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

With anything new, if it’s weird or cool, it will catch people’s attention. But slowly, that new thing, if it catches on, it becomes a trend itself.

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.’

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.

I think us humans are just so cruel to each other. We just want to keep judging each other on our looks.

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.