I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
MITSKIIf I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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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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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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