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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.

Mitski

Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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Any Fact Guidance Kind Know Look Problematic
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
I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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Can Dance Guess Move Playful Say Serious Too Twist
I think music is supposed to be shared.
MITSKI

Music Share Suppose Think
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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
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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Creative Film Job Major More Opportunity Reason Some Thought
I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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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
I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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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.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.

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