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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.

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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
MITSKI

Artist Brand Feel Human Icon Like Make Many Music Musician Non So Sometimes Understand
I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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Alone Happiness Maintain Obsessed Think Try
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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Able Artist Communities Fight Our Reason Responsibility Think
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Cross Finger Hope Musician Whole Writer
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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Get Indulge Morose Most One Serious Take Time Young Yourself
I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
MITSKI

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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
MITSKI

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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Good Inspiration Tour Writing
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

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