I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKIEverything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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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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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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