I’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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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