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.
MITSKIThe whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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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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