I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
MITSKII’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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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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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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 I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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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 think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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