I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
MITSKIOn one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for 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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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