When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKIWhen 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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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