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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.

Mitski

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.
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Artist Brand Feel Human Icon Like Make Many Music Musician Non So Sometimes Understand
I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Almost Can Car Get Infant Read Sick
When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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Adult End Everything Mellow Out Sad Teenager Thing Think Worth
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKI

Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very
I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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Came Care How Just Make Music Next Really
I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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Brought Course High Honor Music Remember School Took Year
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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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Discover More Out Set Something Write
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
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’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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Been Careful Clear Lit Make Media Person Real Social Very
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.
MITSKI

Gender Hand Important One Progress Race Ralk Very
All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
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

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