All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKII 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.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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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