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.
MITSKIOftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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 try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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 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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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