I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKII guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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 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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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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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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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