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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’

Mitski

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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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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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’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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