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" 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. "

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" With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There's nothing that's set. "

Mitski

Feel

Control

You

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

" You can never learn enough about music. "

" I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'm not an innovator. "

Mitski

Innovator

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

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

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

Mitski

Want

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

" 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. "

" I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I've watched them since I was very young, and I've been greatly shaped by them. "

" I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction. "

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

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

" I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. Then you start to realise, 'Oh, I'm bending a lot,' and they're just standing there existing, and I'm bending around them. But you can't blame them: they don't realise it; that's just how they already existed. It's hard. "

" I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp. "

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

" 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

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