I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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 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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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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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’m not an innovator.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my 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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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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