When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
MITSKIEverything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 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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