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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.

Mitski

Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
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.
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Best Care Hard Love Realize Someone Them Try Want
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.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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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.
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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.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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