I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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When 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 don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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