Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
MITSKIWhenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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