If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

