I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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 hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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