I don’t want to be elitist.
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.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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 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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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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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.
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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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