I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
MITSKIOn 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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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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