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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.

Mitski

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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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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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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 feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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