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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

Mitski

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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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 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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

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