I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

I've never really had the urge to make an English album.

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.