I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
MITSKIAs 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 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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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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