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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

Mitski

I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
MITSKI

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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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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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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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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’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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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 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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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.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

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