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

Mitski

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
When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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Belong Came Country Create Either Idea Realise
I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Cross Finger Hope Musician Whole Writer
Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Good Inspiration Tour Writing
I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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