Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
MITSKIYou can never learn enough about music.
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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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 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.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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