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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.

Mitski

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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