Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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