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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.

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
I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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.
MITSKI

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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKI

Anyone Ask Assume Been Hobby Offend Strangely Time Whether
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKI

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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.
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Any Big Easily Get Go Know Nice Own Perspective Small Stuck Tend To World
I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
MITSKI

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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
MITSKI

Comunity Exist Ingratiate Myself Whenever Tried
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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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