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Mitski

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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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 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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Gold Punk Love
I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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 don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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