My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKIThe whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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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