I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKIIt’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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