Terry Gross
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What was your father doing in the government?
He was working for the IMF.
The International Monetary Fund?
So two extremes, like Iceland is like remote.
is one of the capitals of the world, not just the capital of the U.S.
What was it like growing up in two pretty opposite worlds?
It's certainly a lot warmer and swampier here.
Well, since you're half Chinese and half Icelandic and you grew up in Iceland, not a lot of Chinese people in Iceland.
So being half Chinese was probably considered unusual, maybe even like, quote, exotic.
But growing up in Washington, there's like lots of people from China and other Asian countries.
So what was it like for you to be so unusual in such a homogenous place as Iceland?
I want to ask you to do another song for us, and this is Castle in Hollywood.
Would you give us the backstory for the song?