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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.

Mitski

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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Get Indulge Morose Most One Serious Take Time Young Yourself
I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
MITSKI

Always Haven Myself String Urge
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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Automatical Become Bend Immediately Lover Often Problem Want
I’m not an innovator.
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Innovator Not
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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Around Carry Figure Find Guitar Harder Keyboard Litle Music Piano Real Take Want
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
MITSKI

Actually Country Love Love Place Summer Tour Went When
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Creativity Fiction Have Kind Think Write
I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKI

Almost Can Car Get Infant Read Sick
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
MITSKI

Every Feel Privilege Resistance Such Turn
I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKI

Can Dance Guess Move Playful Say Serious Too Twist
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
MITSKI

Decision Important Into Make Most Much Often One Put Times
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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All Always Born Country Day From Have Thing Want What
I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
MITSKI

Anymore Dislike Even Keep Me People Tend Try Way
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
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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Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic

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