I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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