I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
MITSKII 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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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 think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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 music is supposed to be shared.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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