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.
MITSKII don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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