What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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 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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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