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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

Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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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.
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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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 someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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