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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

Mitski

All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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Artist Hard Indie might Musician Pop Rally Same Thing Work
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 don’t want to be elitist.
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Be Elitist Want To
I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Art Artist Being Little Make People Realize Think
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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Ask Eat Ever Know People Want Your
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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
I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Gold Punk Love
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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Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
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 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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Like Music Say Someone Something
What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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