I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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