I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
MITSKIYou can never learn enough about music.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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 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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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