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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.

MITSKI

I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKI

Doing Math Quickly Relly
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.

MITSKI

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.
MITSKI

Go Healthy Out Properly Regimented
I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.

MITSKI

I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
MITSKI

Accept Acknowledge Being Have Institution Thing
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.

MITSKI

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.
MITSKI

Gender Hand One Race Ralk Very
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.

MITSKI

I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
MITSKI

Creativity Have Think Write
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.

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.
MITSKI

Able Communities Our Responsibility Think
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

MITSKI

I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKI

Dangerous Think Very
The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.

MITSKI

The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
MITSKI

Certainty Earliest Grunge Journalist Out Pick Whole
As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

MITSKI

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
MITSKI

Color Competent Everybody Fifty Hundred Percent
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.

MITSKI

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.
MITSKI

Everyone Made Maybe Preserve
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.

MITSKI

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.
MITSKI

Being Figure Make Musician Someone
I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.

MITSKI

I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
MITSKI

Before Here
When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

MITSKI

When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
MITSKI

End Everything Mellow Out Thing Think
I don’t want to be elitist.

MITSKI

I don’t want to be elitist.
MITSKI

Be Elitist Want To
When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.

MITSKI

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
MITSKI

Feel Finally Like Onstage Way
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.

MITSKI

People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
MITSKI

Being Specific Way

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