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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’

Mitski

I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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Anyone Ask Assume Been Hobby Offend Strangely Time Whether
I don’t want to be elitist.
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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.
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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
When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Believe Like Lot Make Media Music Social Something Start
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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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Always Choose Feel Like Make One Place Stay Thing Travel Want
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.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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.
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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.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’

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