Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
MITSKIYou can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 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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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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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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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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 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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