I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
MITSKII 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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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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