I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I’m not an innovator.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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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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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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