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.
MITSKII try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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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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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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