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.
MITSKIWhen 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.
MITSKIMaybe 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.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKII’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
MITSKII think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
MITSKII don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
MITSKII lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
MITSKII’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
MITSKII was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
MITSKIIf I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
MITSKIPop 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.
MITSKII think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
MITSKII don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
MITSKIThere’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.
MITSKIThe whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
MITSKII 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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