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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

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

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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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.
MITSKI

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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 sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
MITSKI

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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKI

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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
MITSKI

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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, then we won’t progress.
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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 over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
MITSKI

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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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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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