I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
MITSKII 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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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 I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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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 my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 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 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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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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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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