I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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My 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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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When 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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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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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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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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