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.
MITSKIWhat’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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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 don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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I’m not an innovator.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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