I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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