I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
MITSKII 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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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 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 couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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 whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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 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.
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