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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.

Mitski

When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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 set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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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 it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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 took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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