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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.

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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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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’m not an innovator.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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