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.
MITSKIThings 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.
MITSKIOn tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKII know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKII 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.
MITSKII took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
MITSKII’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
MITSKII think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKII don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
MITSKII’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKIWhen you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKII think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
MITSKIYou always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
MITSKIIn 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.
MITSKII think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKIAll the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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