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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.

Mitski

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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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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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 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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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 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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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