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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.

Mitski

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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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 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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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.

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