Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
MITSKIWhen I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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 my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I 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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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