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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Mitski

Purpose

Myself

Belief

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn't identify as that before I came here. People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way. "

Mitski

American

Here

" 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 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 can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant. "

" When I record, it's this very precious and insular thing. "

" 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. "

" There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think what's hard for me is not that I don't get downtime to chill, it's that I don't get time to make music. "

Mitski

Hard

Chill

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head. "

" As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent. "

" 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

" You can never learn enough about music. "