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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.

Mitski

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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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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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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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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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