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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.’

Mitski

I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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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.
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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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