I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKII guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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’m not an innovator.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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 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 don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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