I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
MITSKIPop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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 you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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