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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

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 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.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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 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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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