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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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.
MITSKI

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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
MITSKI

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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
MITSKI

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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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.
MITSKI

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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKI

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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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