My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate 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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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