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.
MITSKIA 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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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