People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKIYou can never learn enough about music.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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