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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.

Mitski

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 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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.

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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.

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