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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Good Inspiration Tour Writing
Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Call Girl Intense One People Those Was
All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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.
MITSKI

Bend Job Love Make Minority Really Someone Want Work
I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Almost Can Car Get Infant Read Sick
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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Being Country Crisis First Few Identity Long Major never One Place Stay Year
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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic

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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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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