I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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 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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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