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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.

Mitski

I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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 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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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