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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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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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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Comunity Exist Ingratiate Myself Whenever Tried
It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Gold Punk Love
I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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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’m not an innovator.
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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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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.
MITSKI

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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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 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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