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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.

Mitski

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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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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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’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 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 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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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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