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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.

Mitski

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Around Artist Counties Father Folk Hink Music Obesess Perform World
I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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Arrive Before Come Country Discover Here Identity
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Accept Acknowledge Being Have Institution Thing
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very
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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Bring High Low Notes Really Some Somewhere Song Try Want
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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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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Always Better Color Competent Consider Everybody Fifty Hundred Percent Room Woman
I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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Actually Get Know Myself Once Out School Wait Want
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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Completer Control List Over Set Show Solo
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

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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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