I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKIAll the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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 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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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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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