Mitski

You can never learn enough about music.

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I'm punk, but I love gold.

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I think music is supposed to be shared.

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

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I don't want to be elitist.

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I'm not an innovator.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.

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

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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

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I really like The Cars. They're just so over the top and super pop, but I don't feel guilty. I'm proud of…

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On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink…

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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,…

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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…

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

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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.

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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…

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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,'…

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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and…

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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a…

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I'd always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there's a…

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When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize…

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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…

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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,…

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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn't identify as that before I came here.…

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

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

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I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

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

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Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration.

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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.

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

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

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

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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

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