All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKIPeople started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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What’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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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