I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKIWhen I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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 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 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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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 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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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