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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,

Mitski

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

Always Been Death Fascinate Morbid Sound
On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
MITSKI

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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
MITSKI

Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
I’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKI

Gold Punk Love
I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
MITSKI

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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKI

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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
MITSKI

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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
MITSKI

Being Good Outsider Relly Writer
I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
MITSKI

Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic
I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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.
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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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