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.
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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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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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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