I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
MITSKIWhenever 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 growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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When 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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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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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