Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
MITSKIYou always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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 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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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