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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.

Mitski

On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
MITSKI

Ask Eat Ever Know People Want Your
With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
MITSKI

Completer Control List Over Set Show Solo
Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
MITSKI

Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
MITSKI

Also Came From Heartbroken Okay Realize Relationship
I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKI

Attain Country Culture Dream Enter Inherited never Something
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.
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Closer Country Folk Listen Old Pop Really
You can never learn enough about music.
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Enough Learn Music never
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.
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Artist Hard Indie might Musician Pop Rally Same Thing Work
I think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKI

Music Share Suppose Think
Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
MITSKI

Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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Bring High Low Notes Really Some Somewhere Song Try Want
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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Always Better Color Competent Consider Everybody Fifty Hundred Percent Room Woman
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.
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Best Care Hard Love Realize Someone Them Try Want
Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Being Good Outsider Relly Writer
I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Always Haven Myself String Urge
I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKI

Anyone Ask Assume Been Hobby Offend Strangely Time Whether

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