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" 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. "

Mitski

Think

Process

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Music

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Innovator

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Mitski

Music

Making

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" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Mitski

Just

Mine

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

" 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

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" I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it. "