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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.

Mitski

I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Actually Country Love Love Place Summer Tour Went When
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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Around Form Identity Know Think Whole
I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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Belong Came Country Create Either Idea Realise
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Anything Anywhere Belong Felt Grow Lot Moved My Own Really Up
Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Good Inspiration Tour Writing
Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Like Music Say Someone Something
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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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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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I 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.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Gold Punk Love

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