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" 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
Me
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" I think music is supposed to be shared. "
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Music
Supposed
Think
" 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. "
Mitski
Say
Food
People
" I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot. "
Mitski
Always
I Am
Media
" I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed. "
Mitski
Life
Whole
Writer
" 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
More
Play
Live
" 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. "
Mitski
Fight
Art
Cool
" The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed. "
Mitski
Music
Whole
Pick
" 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. "
Mitski
Art
Same
Things
" 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'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. "
Mitski
Death
You
Woman
" I really just care about making music and how I can make it next. "
Mitski
Next
Music
Making
" I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record. "
Mitski
Other
Opinions
Hate
" I couldn't wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don't really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that's what I wanted to do. "
Mitski
Writing
School
Know
" 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
Me
Music
" Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere. "
Mitski
My Own
Growing Up
Growing
" I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious. "
Mitski
Serious
Dance
Like
" 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. "
Mitski
Creative
Thought
Time
" 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. "
Mitski
Think
Kid
Growing Up
" I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country. "
Mitski
Country
Old
Listen
" 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. "
Mitski
Crisis
New York
Identity
" If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me. "
Mitski
Place
Crisis
Ever
" I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically. "
Mitski
Life
Home
Think
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Mitski
Think
Not Knowing
Comfort
" 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. "
Mitski
Best
Try
Kind
" I'm not an innovator. "
Mitski
Innovator
" 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
Me
" You can never learn enough about music. "
Mitski
About
Learn
Music
" 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. "
Mitski
Culture
Born
You
" My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences. "
Mitski
Folk Music
Father
Music