I think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKIMaybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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