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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

Mitski

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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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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’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’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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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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