I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKIYou can never learn enough about music.
MITSKIBeing an outsider makes you a really good writer.
MITSKIIt would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKIWhen you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKII would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
MITSKII think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
MITSKIOften I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
MITSKIMusic 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.
MITSKIWhen 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.
MITSKIWhen someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
MITSKIA 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.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKII think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
MITSKIOn one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
MITSKII think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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