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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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
MITSKI

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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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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.
MITSKI

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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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 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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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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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