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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.

Mitski

With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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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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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