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" I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously. "

Mitski

Say

Doors

Feel

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Mitski

Want

" I really just care about making music and how I can make it next. "

Mitski

Music

Making

" I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record. "

" There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive. "

" I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions. "

" I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music. "

Mitski

Hard

Chill

" 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. "

" In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I'd never stayed in one place for so long. "

" 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. "

" Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty. "

" 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. "

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

" When you're young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously. "

" 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. "

" It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way. "

Mitski

Small

World

" I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about. "

" I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks. "

" 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. "

" Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they're still musicians, and they're still making art. "

" Being an outsider makes you a really good writer. "

" The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed. "

" I'm punk, but I love gold. "

" You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained. "

" It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely. "

" I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Mitski

Audience

Feel

" My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences. "

" 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. "

" I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me. "