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.
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 don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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 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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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