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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

Mitski

When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Every Feel Privilege Resistance Such Turn
When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Insular Precious Record Thing Very When
I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Can Dance Guess Move Playful Say Serious Too Twist
Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
I’m not an innovator.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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