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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

Mitski

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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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