I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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 a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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