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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

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.
MITSKI

Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
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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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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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I’m not an innovator.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
MITSKI

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