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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.

Mitski

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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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 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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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