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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.

Mitski

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.
MITSKI

Also Came From Heartbroken Okay Realize Relationship
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

Always Been Death Fascinate Morbid Sound
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKI

Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
MITSKI

Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
MITSKI

Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
MITSKI

Accept Acknowledge Being Have Institution Thing
Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
MITSKI

Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
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 Film Job Major More Opportunity Reason Some Thought
I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
MITSKI

Call Girl Intense One People Those Was
I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
MITSKI

Grow Important Made Matter More Objective Process Subjective Think Try Way
I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKI

Any Fact Guidance Kind Know Look Problematic
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 Between Existence Feel Just Obvious Party Perform Sometimes
Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKI

Like Music Say Someone Something
Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
MITSKI

Already Balme Bend Around Exist Hard Lot Realise Start
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKI

Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
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.
MITSKI

Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try

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