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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’

Mitski

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
MITSKI

Actual Art Blind Ego Get Kind Make Something Think Way
I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
MITSKI

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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
MITSKI

Anything Anywhere Belong Felt Grow Lot Moved My Own Really Up
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
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
MITSKI

Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
MITSKI

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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
MITSKI

Good Inspiration Tour Writing
I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
MITSKI

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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
Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKI

Like Music Say Someone Something
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

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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKI

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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
MITSKI

Could Just Me Mine Music One Put Thing
I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
MITSKI

Discover More Out Set Something Write
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

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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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