It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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More Mitski Quotes
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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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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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