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.
MITSKIOn 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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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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You can never learn enough about 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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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