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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 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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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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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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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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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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