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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’

Mitski

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Good Inspiration Tour Writing
It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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You can never learn enough about music.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’

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