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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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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
MITSKI

Cross Finger Hope Musician Whole Writer
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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Artist Brand Feel Human Icon Like Make Many Music Musician Non So Sometimes Understand
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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Automatical Become Bend Immediately Lover Often Problem Want
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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Actually Change Compeletely Different Feel Force Sing Sound Style Unnatural
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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
MITSKI

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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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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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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