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

Mitski

I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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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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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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 think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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