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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.

Mitski

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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Always Constant Jobm Career Lot Music Musician Something Start Talk Want
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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Drink Jib Other Suppose Think Tour Whisky Work
I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Artist Gonna Hate Opinion Other Record
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
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.
MITSKI

Adult Doing Expect Growth Kid Kind Realize Something Still
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
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

Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
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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Best Care Hard Love Realize Someone Them Try Want
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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Brought Course High Honor Music Remember School Took Year
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very
I’m not an innovator.
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Innovator Not
I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Basically Been Home Life Stop Think Tour Want
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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Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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Around Carry Figure Find Guitar Harder Keyboard Litle Music Piano Real Take Want
When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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Adult End Everything Mellow Out Sad Teenager Thing Think Worth

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