I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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 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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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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