Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
MITSKII’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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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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 want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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