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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.

Mitski

It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
MITSKI

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

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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
MITSKI

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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
MITSKI

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

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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
MITSKI

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

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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKI

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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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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

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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
MITSKI

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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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.
MITSKI

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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
MITSKI

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I think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKI

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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 considered country.
MITSKI

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

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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.
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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.

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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.

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