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" I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment. "

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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

" 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. "

" When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.' "

Mitski

I Can

Believe

" Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration. "

" 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. "

Mitski

Trying

People

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

" What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology. "

Mitski

Anything

Important

" 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. "

" 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

Too Much

Adapt

" Honestly, in the music business, it's all about being cool or being the newest thing or being the 'It' person, and I've tried really hard to be what is expected of me or what would be advantageous to my career, and I just reached the point where I said, 'No, I'm an emotional loser. I can't pretend to not care.' "

Mitski

Cool

Music

" Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things. "

Mitski

Things

Outsider

" I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed. "

" Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something. "

" All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey. "

" I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, 'I love this place.' "

" Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into. "

" I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance. "

" 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. "

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

" Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere. "

" You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from. "

" I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art. "

" I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time. "

" I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around. "

Mitski

Play

Live

" I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing. "

" 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 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. "

" I was one of those girls people called 'intense.' "

" I'd always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there's a sense that you're never young enough, or your career is going to end soon. "

" 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. "