Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
MITSKIBeing an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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