When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKII’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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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 understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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