I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKIWhenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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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 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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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