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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

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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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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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 someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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