I 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.
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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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 want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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