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.
MITSKII didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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 think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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 ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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