What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKIYou can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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 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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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