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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

I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
MITSKI

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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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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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