All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKIGrowing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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