I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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’m not an innovator.
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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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