I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
MITSKIAll I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I 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.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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I 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.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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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