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.
MITSKIThings seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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