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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

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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Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Anything Anywhere Belong Felt Grow Lot Moved My Own Really Up
Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Always Chaostic Dirty Everything Felt Messy So World
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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Closer Country Folk Listen Old Pop Really
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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Anything Exist Ideology Important Material Me Reflective Song
I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Actually Country Love Love Place Summer Tour Went When
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
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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Any Big Easily Get Go Know Nice Own Perspective Small Stuck Tend To World
I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Call Girl Intense One People Those Was
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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Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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Any Fact Guidance Kind Know Look Problematic
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic
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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Being Country Crisis First Few Identity Long Major never One Place Stay Year
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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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Be Elitist Want To

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