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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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.

Mitski

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.

MITSKI

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKI

Audience Get Think
I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

MITSKI

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
MITSKI

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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.

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.
MITSKI

Completer List Over Set Solo
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,

MITSKI

You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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I’m not an innovator.

MITSKI

I’m not an innovator.
MITSKI

Innovator Not
I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

MITSKI

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

Finger Musician Whole Writer
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.

MITSKI

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.
MITSKI

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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.

MITSKI

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.
MITSKI

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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.

MITSKI

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKI

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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!’

MITSKI

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!’
MITSKI

Automatical Become Immediately Often
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
MITSKI

Around Counties Folk Hink Obesess
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.

MITSKI

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.
MITSKI

Do Few Kid Last Over Own Piano Took
I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
MITSKI

Came Either Idea Realise
As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

MITSKI

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
MITSKI

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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.

MITSKI

I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
MITSKI

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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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