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I’m punk, but I love gold.

Mitski

I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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