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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.

Mitski

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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I’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.
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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 think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.

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