When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKIBeing an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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A 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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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