In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
MITSKIOn one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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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 the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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