Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
MITSKIOn tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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