I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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There’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.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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