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.
MITSKIThere’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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My 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 are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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