I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
MITSKII 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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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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 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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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