I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKIMy personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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.
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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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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 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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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