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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.

Mitski

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
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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’m not an innovator.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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Always Been Death Fascinate Morbid Sound
If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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