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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.

Mitski

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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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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