I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
MITSKII don’t want to be elitist.
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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 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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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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 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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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