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

Mitski

I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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 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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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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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