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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.

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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.
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Another Female Mukttilayer Problem Sgrink Symbol Token
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.
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Grow Important Made Matter More Objective Process Subjective Think Try Way
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Decision Important Into Make Most Much Often One Put Times
I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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Came Care How Just Make Music Next Really
I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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Conveniently Emotion Fade Memory Overwhelming Photographic Thing Very
I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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Audience Get People Play Pressure Show Think
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
I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Every Feel Privilege Resistance Such Turn
Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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Automatical Become Bend Immediately Lover Often Problem Want
All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Al Do Karaoke People Person Sing Want
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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Gender Hand Important One Progress Race Ralk Very
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Always Chaostic Dirty Everything Felt Messy So World
I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Almost Can Car Get Infant Read Sick
When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKI

Feel Finally Like Myself Onstage Perform Want Way
I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic
I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Basically Been Home Life Stop Think Tour Want
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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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Good Inspiration Tour Writing
I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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Car Feel Guilty Like Listen Music Over Pop Proud Really Super Top
I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
MITSKI

Do Few Kid Last Lesson Over Own Piano Took
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
I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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Discover More Out Set Something Write
I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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Belong Came Country Create Either Idea Realise
I’m punk, but I love gold.
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Gold Punk Love
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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Actually Get Know Myself Once Out School Wait Want

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