I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
MITSKIWhen you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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