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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.

Mitski

I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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 people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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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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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 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.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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