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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

Mitski

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 want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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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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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