I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
MITSKIMaybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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’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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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