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Mitski

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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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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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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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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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 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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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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