I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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 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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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’m not an innovator.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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