I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKII took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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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 one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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