My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKIMy personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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 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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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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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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