I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKII think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKII have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
MITSKII can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKIWhen someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
MITSKII’m not an innovator.
MITSKIMy personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKIA 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.
MITSKII 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.
MITSKII was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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.
MITSKII’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
MITSKII think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKII remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
MITSKIWhen I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
MITSKII’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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.
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