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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.

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.
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Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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Do Few Kid Last Lesson Over Own Piano Took
I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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Closer Country Folk Listen Old Pop Really
When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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Bend Job Love Make Minority Really Someone Want Work

When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.

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