I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
MITSKIPop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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