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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.

Mitski

Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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Creative Film Job Major More Opportunity Reason Some Thought
With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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.
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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 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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