Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKIBeing an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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 ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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