When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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 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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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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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