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.
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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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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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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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