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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.

Mitski

Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
MITSKI

Already Balme Bend Around Exist Hard Lot Realise Start
Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
MITSKI

Like Music Say Someone Something
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
MITSKI

Belong Crisis Even Found Identity Itself Place
There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
MITSKI

Completer Each Other Hate Myth Owen Something Suppose
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

Arrive Before Come Country Discover Here Identity
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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKI

Bad Bleak Thing Think
Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
MITSKI

Artist Hard Indie might Musician Pop Rally Same Thing Work
I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
MITSKI

Around Carry Figure Find Guitar Harder Keyboard Litle Music Piano Real Take Want
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
MITSKI

Over Say Somebody Tempting Want When You
I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKI

Can Dance Guess Move Playful Say Serious Too Twist
All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKI

All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
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.
MITSKI

Could Just Me Mine Music One Put Thing
I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
MITSKI

Call Girl Intense One People Those Was
I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
MITSKI

Cross Finger Hope Musician Whole Writer
When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKI

Bend Job Love Make Minority Really Someone Want Work

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