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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.

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.
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Being Figure Live Make Musician Public Someone Try
People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Accept Acknowledge Being Have Institution Thing
I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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Grow Important Made Matter More Objective Process Subjective Think Try Way
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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Creativity Fiction Have Kind Think Write
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very
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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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Ability Already Best Environment Out Seek Tenda Thing Try Use
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.
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Audience Between Existence Feel Just Obvious Party Perform Sometimes
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
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
Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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Being Good Outsider Relly Writer
I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Call Girl Intense One People Those Was
When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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Bend Job Love Make Minority Really Someone Want Work
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 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

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