On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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