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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.

Mitski

Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
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 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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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