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.
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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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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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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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