Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
MITSKIGrowing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 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’m not an innovator.
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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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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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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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