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.
MITSKIOften I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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 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 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 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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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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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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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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 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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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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