People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKIIt’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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’m not an innovator.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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On 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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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