All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKIIf I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Often 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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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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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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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