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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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Anyone Ask Assume Been Hobby Offend Strangely Time Whether
All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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Al Do Karaoke People Person Sing 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
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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Around Artist Counties Father Folk Hink Music Obesess Perform World
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
Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Being Good Outsider Relly Writer
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
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.
MITSKI

Audience Between Existence Feel Just Obvious Party Perform Sometimes
I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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Always Been Death Fascinate Morbid Sound
I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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Also Camp Country Neither Want White
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.
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Completer Control List Over Set Show Solo
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Bad Bleak Thing Think
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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Country Listen Love River See Think Would
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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Arrive Before Come Country Discover Here Identity
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

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