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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

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.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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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.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
MITSKI

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I’m not an innovator.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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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

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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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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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