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I’m punk, but I love gold.

Mitski

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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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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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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