I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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