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.
MITSKIAs a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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Often 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 your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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