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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.

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 Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
MITSKI

Creativity Fiction Have Kind Think Write
I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKI

Almost Can Car Get Infant Read Sick
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

Always Better Color Competent Consider Everybody Fifty Hundred Percent Room Woman
I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
MITSKI

Belong Came Country Create Either Idea Realise
You can never learn enough about music.
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Enough Learn Music never
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 Artist Communities Fight Our Reason Responsibility Think
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.
MITSKI

Completer Control List Over Set Show Solo
I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
MITSKI

Artist Gonna Hate Opinion Other Record
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
MITSKI

Abroad Communities Insular International Life Love Most
I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
MITSKI

Alone Happiness Maintain Obsessed Think Try
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
When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
MITSKI

Adult Doing Expect Growth Kid Kind Realize Something Still
I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
MITSKI

Do Few Kid Last Lesson Over Own Piano Took
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.
MITSKI

Another Female Mukttilayer Problem Sgrink Symbol Token
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 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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