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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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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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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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