Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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 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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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 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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I 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.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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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