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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

Mitski

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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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 my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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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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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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