“I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to sp...” — Michelle Zauner Quote

“I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't really the story that I ever was interested in telling.”

“I'm a very impatient person. I like things to be done. So I complete a lot of projects, but it helps to partner or collaborate with someone who's the opposite because they can tell me when to slow down.”

“I feel like there are a number of indie artists... as they grow, it makes the most sense for them to pivot to pop, to become bigger artists. And I feel like that's when people get really bad, you know? I didn't want to fall into that pitfall.”

“When I was a child, growing up on a council estate in the northeast of England, I imbibed enough of the background racial tensions of the late 1970s and 1980s to feel profoundly unwelcome in Britain.”

“Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.”

“My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.”