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.
MITSKIIt’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.
MITSKII always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKIAll I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKIWhen someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
MITSKIWhen you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKII don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKII think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKII 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.
MITSKIIn 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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
MITSKII don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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.
MITSKII created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
MITSKII 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.
MITSKII would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
MITSKIBeing an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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