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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 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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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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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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 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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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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 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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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 always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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