Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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 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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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’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 don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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