I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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 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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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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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.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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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 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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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