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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

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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Bring High Low Notes Really Some Somewhere Song Try Want
I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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 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.

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