I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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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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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 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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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