I 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.
MITSKIThere’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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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’m not an innovator.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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