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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.

Mitski

I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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Chill Downtime Hard Make Music Think
Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Like Music Say Someone Something
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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Audience Get People Play Pressure Show Think
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.
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Always Been Death Fascinate Morbid Sound
I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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Conveniently Emotion Fade Memory Overwhelming Photographic Thing Very
I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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Also Camp Country Neither Want White
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Creativity Fiction Have Kind Think Write
On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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Ask Eat Ever Know People Want Your
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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Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Anything Anywhere Belong Felt Grow Lot Moved My Own Really Up
I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Accept Acknowledge Being Have Institution Thing
I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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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Believe Like Lot Make Media Music Social Something Start
I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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Eat Go Healthy Out Properly Regimented Sleep Stay Try Work
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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Creative Film Job Major More Opportunity Reason Some Thought

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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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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