Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKII guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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