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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.

Mitski

A 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.
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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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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I 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.
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