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

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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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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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 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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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