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" I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we're able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn's case, we as artists somehow made it 'cool' enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over. "

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

Mitski

Style

Try

Change

" 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

" When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself. "

Mitski

Want

" 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. "

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

" 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

" I don't want to be elitist. "

Mitski

Want

Elitist

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

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

Mitski

Music

Making

" 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. "

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

" On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" I think music is supposed to be shared. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" I always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, 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. "

Mitski

Find

Music

" 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. "

Mitski

Start

Music

" I think people don't realize how little of being an artist is making art. "

" I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art. "

" I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician. "

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

Mitski

I Can

Believe

" 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. "

" 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

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