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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

Mitski

I don’t want to be elitist.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Sometimes 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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

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