I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
MITSKIOn tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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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 don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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