I’m not an innovator.
MITSKIWhat I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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 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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