I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKII could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKIMy father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
MITSKII think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
MITSKII was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
MITSKIIt would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKIOn 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.
MITSKII 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.
MITSKII think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKIWhenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
MITSKII have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
MITSKII’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
MITSKII don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKIWhat’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKII lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
MITSKIWhen you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKIWhen I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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