I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKIOften 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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken 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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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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’m not an innovator.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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