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" 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. "

Mitski

Musicians

People

You

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Elitist

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Anything

Important

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Mitski

Audience

Feel

" 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 not an innovator. "

Mitski

Innovator

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

" 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

" I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically. "

" 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

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" My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot. "

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