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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.

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.
MITSKI

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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
MITSKI

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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
MITSKI

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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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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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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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.
MITSKI

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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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