I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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 asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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