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.
MITSKIWhen you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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Whenever 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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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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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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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