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!’
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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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