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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.

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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I 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.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I 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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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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