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.
MITSKIGrowing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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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