Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKIA lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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 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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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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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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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