I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKIYou can never learn enough about music.
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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 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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 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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Maybe 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 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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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’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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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