On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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 I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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