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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.

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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKI

Attain Country Culture Dream Enter Inherited never Something
Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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Actually Change Compeletely Different Feel Force Sing Sound Style Unnatural
I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Always Haven Myself String Urge
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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Could Just Me Mine Music One Put Thing
I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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Any Fact Guidance Kind Know Look Problematic
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
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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Do Few Kid Last Lesson Over Own Piano Took
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
I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Actually Country Love Love Place Summer Tour Went When
I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Cross Finger Hope Musician Whole Writer
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
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very
I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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Been Careful Clear Lit Make Media Person Real Social Very
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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Eat Go Healthy Out Properly Regimented Sleep Stay Try Work
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most

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