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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

I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKI

Bad Bleak Thing Think
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
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very
I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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Also Camp Country Neither Want White
Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
MITSKI

Already Balme Bend Around Exist Hard Lot Realise Start
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKI

Over Say Somebody Tempting Want When You
I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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Actually Get Know Myself Once Out School Wait Want
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.
MITSKI

Able Artist Communities Fight Our Reason Responsibility Think
I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
MITSKI

Always Anywhere Country Fit Grew Survive Up
I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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Actual Art Blind Ego Get Kind Make Something Think Way
When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Believe Like Lot Make Media Music Social Something Start
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
I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
MITSKI

Closer Country Folk Listen Old Pop Really
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
MITSKI

Decision Important Into Make Most Much Often One Put Times
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
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way

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