I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
MITSKI
You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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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 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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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I 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.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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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