On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
MITSKIYou can never learn enough about music.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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’m not an innovator.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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