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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.

Mitski

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.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I’m not an innovator.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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