Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
MITSKII don’t want to be elitist.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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