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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.

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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
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 people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Art Artist Being Little Make People Realize Think
I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
MITSKI

Country Listen Love River See Think Would
I think music is supposed to be shared.
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Music Share Suppose Think
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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Artist Gonna Hate Opinion Other Record
My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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Compulsive Lot Obsessive Personality Very
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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Attain Country Culture Dream Enter Inherited never Something
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
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 understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
MITSKI

Artist Brand Feel Human Icon Like Make Many Music Musician Non So Sometimes Understand
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.
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Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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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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