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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

I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
MITSKI

Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
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 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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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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You can never learn enough about music.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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

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

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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.

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