I don’t want to be elitist.
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.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I 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.
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Whenever 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.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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