I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKIAll I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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