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.
MITSKIWhen you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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 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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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