Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
MITSKIOftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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 really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I’m not an innovator.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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