I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
MITSKII have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
MITSKII think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
MITSKII don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
MITSKII think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKII 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.
MITSKII understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
MITSKII think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
MITSKII didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
MITSKIOn tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
MITSKIMy father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
MITSKII was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
MITSKIIt would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKIA 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.
MITSKII have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
MITSKII think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
MITSKII 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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