What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKIWhen 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 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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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