When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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