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" On one hand, I think it's very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it's not talked about, then we won't progress. What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist. "

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" Sometimes when I perform, and it's obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it. "

Mitski

Audience

Feel

" You can never learn enough about music. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 think music is supposed to be shared. "

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

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences. "

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

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

" I was one of those girls people called 'intense.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things. "

Mitski

Things

Outsider

" You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained. "

" 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. "

" I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up. "

" I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment. "

" You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from. "

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

" I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable. "

" 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 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. "