I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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It’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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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 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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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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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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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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