I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
MITSKII’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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 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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I’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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 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 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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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