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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’

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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
MITSKI

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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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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 you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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