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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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You can never learn enough about music.
MITSKI

Enough Learn Music never
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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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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Adult Doing Expect Growth Kid Kind Realize Something Still
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.
MITSKI

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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
MITSKI

Also Came From Heartbroken Okay Realize Relationship
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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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