I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKIYou always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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