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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,

Mitski

It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKI

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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKI

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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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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.
MITSKI

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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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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 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

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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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