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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.

Mitski

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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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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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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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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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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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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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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