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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.

Mitski

I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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 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’m not an innovator.
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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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