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.
MITSKISometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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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 think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 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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