I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKII guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKII don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKIIt’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
MITSKIMy personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKIWhen I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKIWhen 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.
MITSKII think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKIPeople started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKII’m not an innovator.
MITSKII actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
MITSKIAs a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
MITSKIOftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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 think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKII’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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