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.
MITSKII 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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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