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.
MITSKII’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.
MITSKII actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
MITSKII’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
MITSKII have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
MITSKII don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
MITSKII think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKII 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.
MITSKII always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKII 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.
MITSKII’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKIOn 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.
MITSKII discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
MITSKIWhen I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
MITSKII think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
MITSKII took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
MITSKII didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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