All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKIWhen 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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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 couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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 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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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’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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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