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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.

Mitski

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.
MITSKI

Been Careful Clear Lit Make Media Person Real Social Very
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
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’m not an innovator.
MITSKI

Innovator Not
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
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
Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Always Chaostic Dirty Everything Felt Messy So World
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
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 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 think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
MITSKI

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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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

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