I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
MITSKIMy father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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