I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKIWhen you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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When 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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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