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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.

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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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 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 don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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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