In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
MITSKII 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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 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 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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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’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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