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.
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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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