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.
MITSKIIt’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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