I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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