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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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You

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" When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.' "

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I Can

Believe

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

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

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

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

" I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician. "

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

" Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!' "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" I'm not an innovator. "

Mitski

Innovator

" 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 don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment. "

" I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel. "

" I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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Music

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

" 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. "

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

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Want

" 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. "

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Just

Mine