I think music is supposed to be shared.
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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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 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’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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I’m not an innovator.
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