I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
MITSKIMy father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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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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