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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

I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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