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" When you're doing something you're not used to, you kind of realize that you're still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you're expected to act like an adult, you still haven't actually grown up. "

Mitski

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

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" 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. "

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" I really just care about making music and how I can make it next. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing. "

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" 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. "

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

" I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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