I 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!’
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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 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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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Often 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!’
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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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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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