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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.

Mitski

I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
MITSKI

Anymore Dislike Even Keep Me People Tend Try Way
I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
MITSKI

Art Artist Being Little Make People Realize Think
I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
MITSKI

Always Anywhere Country Fit Grew Survive Up
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.
MITSKI

Drink Jib Other Suppose Think Tour Whisky Work
I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKI

Audience Get People Play Pressure Show Think
I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
MITSKI

Actual Art Blind Ego Get Kind Make Something Think Way
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKI

Actually Change Compeletely Different Feel Force Sing Sound Style Unnatural
I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
MITSKI

Car Feel Guilty Like Listen Music Over Pop Proud Really Super Top
When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
MITSKI

Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
MITSKI

Decision Important Into Make Most Much Often One Put Times
What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKI

Anything Exist Ideology Important Material Me Reflective Song
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

Artist Brand Feel Human Icon Like Make Many Music Musician Non So Sometimes Understand
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKI

Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
I’m not an innovator.
MITSKI

Innovator Not
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKI

Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
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.
MITSKI

Actually Get Know Myself Once Out School Wait Want

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