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

Mitski

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKI

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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
MITSKI

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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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.
MITSKI

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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKI

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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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