I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
MITSKIBeing an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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There’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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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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