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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

Mitski

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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Basically Been Home Life Stop Think Tour Want
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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Decision Important Into Make Most Much Often One Put Times
I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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.
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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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Always Been Death Fascinate Morbid Sound
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
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Anything Anywhere Belong Felt Grow Lot Moved My Own Really Up
I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Art Artist Being Little Make People Realize Think
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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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

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