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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.

Mitski

I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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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 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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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