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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

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
MITSKI

Around Form Identity Know Think Whole
When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
MITSKI

Insular Precious Record Thing Very When
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

Comunity Exist Ingratiate Myself Whenever Tried
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
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

Closer Country Folk Listen Old Pop Really
Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKI

Like Music Say Someone Something
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

Ability Already Best Environment Out Seek Tenda Thing Try Use
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
I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
MITSKI

Around Carry Figure Find Guitar Harder Keyboard Litle Music Piano Real Take Want
I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKI

Anyone Ask Assume Been Hobby Offend Strangely Time Whether
I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKI

Attain Country Culture Dream Enter Inherited never Something
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
MITSKI

All Always Born Country Day From Have Thing Want What
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKI

Bad Bleak Thing Think
I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
MITSKI

Also Camp Country Neither Want White
When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKI

Bend Job Love Make Minority Really Someone Want Work
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.
MITSKI

Chill Downtime Hard Make Music Think

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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