I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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’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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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