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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

Mitski

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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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.
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