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.
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 want to be elitist.
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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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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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