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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

Mitski

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.
MITSKI

Car Feel Guilty Like Listen Music Over Pop Proud Really Super Top
I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
MITSKI

Creative Film Job Major More Opportunity Reason Some Thought
All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKI

All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
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

Always Better Color Competent Consider Everybody Fifty Hundred Percent Room Woman
I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
MITSKI

Always Choose Feel Like Make One Place Stay Thing Travel Want
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.
MITSKI

Adult End Everything Mellow Out Sad Teenager Thing Think Worth
What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
MITSKI

Another Female Mukttilayer Problem Sgrink Symbol Token
Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKI

Good Inspiration Tour Writing
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

Best Care Hard Love Realize Someone Them Try Want
I’m not an innovator.
MITSKI

Innovator Not
I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
MITSKI

Call Girl Intense One People Those Was
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKI

Actually Change Compeletely Different Feel Force Sing Sound Style Unnatural
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
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
The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
MITSKI

Appreciate Certainty Comparision Earliest Girl Grunge Journalist Music Out Pick Rush Whole
What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
MITSKI

Anything Exist Ideology Important Material Me Reflective Song

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