I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
MITSKIWhen you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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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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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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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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