I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
MITSKIIf I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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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.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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 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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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