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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.

Mitski

It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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.
MITSKI

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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKI

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

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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKI

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I’m not an innovator.
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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 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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
MITSKI

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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
MITSKI

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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKI

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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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