Ejae

“I'm figuring it out as I go,”

“I think music in general, if there's just music there, I will do it...I'm willing to do all. You know, wear all outfits,”

“So to be hearing that now, it's just such a confidence booster. I'm trying to rewire my brain,”

“I was at this panel the other day, and I was talking about that. And literally in the crowd while I was saying it, it was like, ‘We love your voice, EJAE!' And that just like, immediately, I couldn't not cry,”

“It's just so foreign to me to hear that, really. I think for so long, I heard kind of the opposite, or just like, no comment on my voice.”

“Oh yeah. I feel so honored to even be nominated for that, but to be given the award, [it] truly means a lot. Because I love K-pop, and as a lot of people know, I trained to be a K-pop idol.”

“I would love to one day work on a project like ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ or do the soundtrack for a James Bond film.”

“It would be a message to every Asian-American girl who’s ever felt impostor syndrome in this industry.”

“Rumi’s lyrics reflect her desperation to fix her patterns. It’s like her personal pep talk – telling herself not to give up and that she can reach her dreams.”

“As a trainee, I learnt to think about how a song might translate into choreography or a music video,”

“I learned to think about how a song might translate into choreography or a music video. That perspective has shaped my songwriting ever since.”

“After getting dropped, my dream to become a singer—I let that go,”