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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
MITSKI

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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 it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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