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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.

Mitski

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.
MITSKI

Chill Downtime Hard Make Music Think
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
I’m punk, but I love gold.
MITSKI

Gold Punk Love
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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
MITSKI

Cross Finger Hope Musician Whole Writer
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
I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKI

Be Elitist Want To
Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKI

Always Chaostic Dirty Everything Felt Messy So World
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
MITSKI

Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
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
Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
MITSKI

Greatly Movie Raise Shape Since Them Very Watch Young
I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKI

Any Fact Guidance Kind Know Look Problematic
I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
MITSKI

Art Artist Being Little Make People Realize Think
When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKI

Get Indulge Morose Most One Serious Take Time Young Yourself
I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
MITSKI

Anymore Dislike Even Keep Me People Tend Try Way
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

Ability Already Best Environment Out Seek Tenda Thing Try Use

I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.

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