Awkwafina: "I think the people get that I'm just kind of an anomaly in a certain way."

Awkwafina: "I was always that kid. When I got ice cream, I put it in my eye. When I got my license, I got pulled over so many times for playing 'Les Mis' too loud."

Awkwafina: "If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise."

Awkwafina: "Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to change the game to make rap that shows I'm not a normal female rapper - it's not about how rich I am, how much sex I have, or how many boyfriends I have. That's just not me."

Awkwafina: "Eventually, I started to actually enjoy rapping."

Awkwafina: "It's definitely a privilege to be able to do what you love to do; it's not something that everyone gets to do, so I feel really good about that."

Awkwafina: "My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'"

Awkwafina: "I feel that its important for me to be out there and to represent the face. At the same time, for me as an individual, I think the Asian-American face can be crowded with the American identity."

Awkwafina: "I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music."

Awkwafina: "More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much."

Awkwafina: "I'm not trying to unite Asian people with my music."

Awkwafina: "Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot always wrap their minds around someone like me being inspired by it. But if you listen to the things we're saying, they're authentically us."

Awkwafina: "I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat."

Awkwafina: "It's not nice to say it - I know female musicians, but not so many rappers. I can't think of one I idolize, which is sad, but I'm hoping that will change."

Awkwafina: "I think it's important for people to understand that as a woman, I can only rap about the parts I have."