On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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 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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Then 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’m punk, but I love gold.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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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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’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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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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