I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
MITSKIPop 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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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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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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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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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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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