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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’

Mitski

There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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 people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’

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