I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
MITSKIMaybe 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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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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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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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