Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKIWhen 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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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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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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 so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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 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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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