When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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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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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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 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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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