I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I 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.
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Pop 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.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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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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