I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
MITSKIMy personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 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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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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