I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
MITSKII’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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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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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