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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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 discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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