It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKIThen 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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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 think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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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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