When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKIBeing an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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 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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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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 you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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